The Real Sadness Of Fifty Is Not

There Is A Hate Layer Of Opinion And Emotion In America. There Will Be Other Mccarthys To Come Who Will Be Hailed As Its Heroes.

Somehow Life Doesn't Always Pay Off To Those Who Are Most Insistent.

There Are Some Who Become Spies For Money, Or Out Of Vanity And Megalomania, Or Out Of Ambition, Or Out Of A Desire For Thrills. But The Malady Of Our Time Is Of Those Who Become Spies Out Of Idealism.

The Tourist Who Moves About To See And Hear And Open Himself To All The Influences Of The Places Which Condense Centuries Of Human Greatness Is Only A Man In Search Of Excellence.

The Crime Of Book Purging Is That It Involves A Rejection Of The Word. For The Word Is Never Absolute Truth, But Only Man's Frail And Human Effort To Approach The Truth. To Reject The Word Is To Reject The Human Search.