I guess I had fun doing it but it has hard memories for me.
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.
Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?
Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.
What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.
I learned how to fire a sniper rifle, which I'm sure will be useful at some point.