Bobby Kennedy and Nelson Rockefeller are having a row, ostensibly over the plight of New York's mentally retarded, a loose definition of which would include everyone in New York who voted for Bobby Kennedy or Nelson Rockefeller.

The duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world, and the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

Marijuana is not much more difficult to obtain than beer. The reason for this is that a liquor store selling beer to a minor stands to lose its liquor license. Marijuana salesmen don't have expensive overheads, and so are not easily punished.

Not everything that is legal is reputable.

Louis Kelso of San Francisco, a lawyer-economist, has for years felt that he has a radical answer to the problem.

Friendship is strengthened by...that which ever so lightly elevates us from the trough of self-concern and self-devotion.