Small wonder our national spirit is husk empty. We have more information but less knowledge. More communication but less community. More goods but less goodwill. More of virtually everything save that which the human spirit requires. So distracted have we become sating this new need or that material appetite, we hardly noticed the departure of happiness

Americans don't bother to notice anybody else in the world.

For anyone who is not white in America, the affronts are virtually across the board.

I can't think of a more mediocre human talent than George Bush. He obviously is a product of family advantage, and he's the worst American President of all time.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

I was really worn down by an American society that is racist, smugly blind to it, and hugely self-satisfied.

You plant twenty coconut trees over here, and twenty coconut trees over there, and you water this batch and don't water that batch. Of the batch you water, nineteen will survive and one will die. Of the batch you don't water, nineteen will die and one will survive.