The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.

flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Human progress had so often been checked by those who were afraid of losing what they had.