I Write To Discover What I Think.

The Force Of The Advertising Word And Image Dwarfs The Power Of Other Literature In The 20th Century.

There Is No Known Device For Artistic Contraception.

Our Attitude Toward Our Own Culture Has Recently Been Characterized By Two Qualities, Braggadocio And Petulance. Braggadocio - Empty Boasting Of American Power, American Virtue, American Know-how - Has Dominated Our Foreign Relations Now For Some Decades. Here At Home - Within The Family, So To Speak - Our Attitude To Our Culture Expresses A Superficially Different Spirit, The Spirit Of Petulance. Never Before, Perhaps, Has A Culture Been So Fragmented Into Groups, Each Full Of Its Own Virtue, Each Annoyed And Irritated At The Others.

Time Makes Heroes But Dissolves Celebrities.

Jeffersonian Isolationism Expressed An Essentially Cosmopolitan Spirit. The Jeffersonian Was Determined - Even At The Expense Of Separating Himself From The Rest Of The Globe, And Even Though He Be Charged With Provincial Selfishness - To Preserve America As An Uncontaminated Laboratory.