We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history.

It's time for the US to widen its circle of learning, not to circle its wagons against hostile ideas in education reform.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

The fact that Washington has been a complete logjam for anything for the last six years has got to change because we need to have federal policy that really allows us to move quickly and nimbly.

On the maps provided by science, we find everything except ourselves.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

One of the things I could never get accustomed to in my youth was the difference I found between life and literature.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

The West is anything but altruistic.

[Fidel Castro] has a very good [human rights] record.