America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.

Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Out on the lawn I lie in bed, Vega conspicuous overhead.

A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence.