The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

To be great is to assume great concerns.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.