With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.

If you make a living, if you earn your own money, you're free - however free one can be on this planet.

Every American election summons the individual voter to weigh the past against the future.

Generally students are the best vehicles for passing on ideas, for their thoughts are plastic and can be molded and they can adjust the ideas of old men to the shape of reality as they find it in villages and hills of China or in ghettos and suburbs of America.

It is almost nicer being a godfather than a father, like having white mice but making your nanny feed them for you.

When a reporter sits down at the typewriter, he’s nobody’s friend.