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" Since we have literally targeted our enemies, the Pentagon assumes that, sooner or later, rogues will take out our cities, presumably from spaceships. "

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" After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes. "

" I've yet to read a memoir by anyone I've known at all well that came anywhere near to the truth. "

" The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library. "

" In August 1961, I visited President Kennedy at Hyannis Port. The Berlin Wall was going up, and he was about to begin a huge military buildup - reluctantly, or so he said, as he puffed on a cigar liberated by a friend from Castro's Cuba. "

" Envy is the central fact of American life. "

" In character, as it were, the writer settles for an impression of what happened rather than creating the sense of the thing happening. "

" What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives. "

" History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true. "

" I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water. "

" After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. "

" Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves. "

" TV news is not very instructive. "

" Most of our writers tend to be recorders. "

" In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor. "

" Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda. "

" Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to 'serious' drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone. "

" Walter Lippmann suggests that the United States behaves like a society which thinks it is complete with no more to accomplish; that, for better or worse, we are what we are, and the only danger to our comfort is external. "

" Policemen are seldom tried for their crimes, or indeed, held responsible for what they do, which disturbs the peace and causes distress among the orderly. "

" To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy. "

" Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. "

" Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. "

" Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults. "

" I can understand companionship. "

" I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view. "

" Like the TV networks, once our government has a hit, it will be repeated over and over again. "

" The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. "

" Americans are future-minded to the point of obsession. We are impatient at living in the present. Tomorrow is bound to be better... next year, next century, always what might be rather than what is. This trait in us makes for 'progress;' it also makes for a continuing dissatisfaction. "

" From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was hardly, ever, a mass rebellion. "

" There are so many things the people who take polls never get around to asking. "