As with . . . even the written word, the remote overview is one more wrenched perspective that developing civilization has glued, collagelike, to the once unified experience of life.

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

Justice is to be found only in the imagination.

It is in the nature of imperialism that citizens of the imperial power are always among the last to know-or care-about circumstances in the colonies.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

To gain support in U.S. Congress and from other nations requires clarity, an acceptable mission and an explicit outcome.

Fast. Powerful. User-friendly. Now choose any two.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.