The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

The art of dying graciously is nowhere advertised, in spite of the fact that its market potential is great.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.

This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter.

The American goes to Paris, always has, and comes back and tells his neighbor, always does, how exorbitant and inhospitable it is, how rapacious and selfish and unaccommodating and unresponsive it is, how dirty and noisy it is-and the next summer his neighbor goes to Paris.

I have never been able to understand why it is that just because I am unintelligible nobody understands me.

Scott Buchanan . . . taught me that the questions that can be answered are not worth asking.