What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

...a national anthem ... sprinkled with question marks.

The economy is a thoughtless weather system.

His mentality was one that had been remarked upon as being peculiarly American since the nation had been born-the restless, erratic insight and imagination of a gadgeteer.

The pills were ethical because they didn't interfere with a person's ability to reproduce, which would have been unnatural and immoral. All the pills did was take every bit of pleasure out of sex.

When I call on a client, I come by cab, and I am sleek and clean and foursquare. I carry myself as though I've made a quiet killing on the stock market, and have come to call more as a public service than anything else.

The darkest secret of this country, I am afraid, is that too many of its citizens imagine that they belong to a much higher civilization somewhere else.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

Of course, one dictionary is as good as another to most people, who use them for spellers and bet-set-tiers and accessories to crossword puzzles and Scrabble games.

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.