History, Like A Badly Constructed Concert Hall,

Piety's Hard Enough To Take Among The Poor Who Have To Practice It. A Rich Man's Piety Stinks. It's Insufferable.

We Have Learned The Answers, All The Answers: It Is The Question That We Do Not Know.

The Dissenter Is Every Human Being At Those Moments Of His Life When He Resigns Momentarily From The Herd And Thinks For Himself.

Wildness And Silence Disappeared From The Countryside, Sweetness Fell From The Air, Not Because Anyone Wished Them To Vanish Or Fall But Because Throughways Had To Floor The Meadows With Cement To Carry The Automobiles Which Advancing Technology Produced. Tropical Beaches Turned Into High-priced Slums Where Thousand-room Hotels Elbowed Each Other For Glimpses Of Once-famous Surf Not Because Those Who Loved The Beaches Wanted Them There But Because Enormous Jets Could Bring A Million Tourists Every Year - And Therefore Did.

What Is Wrong Is Not The Great Discoveries Of Science—information Is Always Better Than Ignorance, No Matter What Information Or What Ignorance. What Is Wrong Is The Belief Behind The Information, The Belief That Information Will Change The World. It Won’t.