Of The Many Things We Have Done

What Counted Was Not The Facts But The Fears.

America Shudders At Anything Alien, And When It Wants To Shut Its Mind Against Any Man's Ideas It Calls Him A Foreigner.

Principles-and I Have In Mind Such Principles As States' Rights Or National Sovereignty Or The Free Market Or Pacifism-have A Way Of Drying Up While The Sap Of Life Goes Flowing In Another Direction.

The Best Thing About Lying In Bed Late Is That You Learn To Distinguish Between First Things And Trivia, For Whatever Presses On You Has To Prove Its Importance Before It Makes You Move.

In Our Rich Consumers' Civilization We Spin Cocoons Around Ourselves And Get Possessed By Our Possessions.