To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

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

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.