A world technology means either a world government or world suicide.
Small wars are always teetering on the brink of becoming big ones.
The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Man's will creates the things that paralyze his brain and brutalize his heart.
Principles-and I have in mind such principles as states' rights or national sovereignty or the free market or pacifism-have a way of drying up while the sap of life goes flowing in another direction.
The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.