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There are no second acts in American lives.

What people want, above all, is order.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

What we do is as American as lynch mobs. America has always been a complex place.

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.