The fact that we've been a great democracy doesn't mean we will automatically keep being one if we keep waving the flag.

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise.

Great hope has no real footing unless one is willing to face into the doom that may also be on the way. p.207

Writing for a newspaper is like running a revolutionary war. You go to battle not when you are ready, but when action offers itself.

The great power in America is the corporations - we`re a corporate country. We`re run by a CEO and the stockholders have very little to say on how the corporation is run. Fine, the board of directors run it and the stockholders can just be disgruntled, but who gives a damn?

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

I hate everything which is not in myself.