It is not science that has destroyed the world, despite all the gloomy forebodings of the earlier prophets. It is man who has destroyed man.

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

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 taste of democracy becomes a bitter taste when the fullness of democracy is denied.

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.

The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors.

There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.