Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.

Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.

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.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

The New York voice reflects its diversity, its foreignness, and, inevitably, the sense of superiority New Yorkers feel or come to feel. It says, without saying, We Know.

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

certain kinds of people become Republicans and certain kinds of people become Democrats, and ... it's more than a matter of party affiliation. It's a way of thinking and being.