The Final Goal Of Human Effort Is

The Settlement Of America Had Its Origins In The Unsettlement Of Europe. America Came Into Existence When The European Was Already So Distant From The Ancient Ideas And Ways Of His Birthplace That The Whole Span Of The Atlantic Did Not Widen The Gulf.

Humor Is Our Way Of Defending Ourselves From Life's Absurdities By Thinking Absurdly About Them.

A Multitude Of Uniform, Unidentifiable Houses, Lined Up Inflexibly, At Uniform Distances, On Uniform Roads, In A Treeless Communal Waste, Inhabited By People Of The Same Class, The Same Income, The Same Age Group, Witnessing The Same Television Performances, Eating The Same Tasteless Prefabricated Foods, From The Same Freezers, Conforming In Every Outward And Inward Respect To The Common Mold.

Nothing About His Life Is More Strange To [man] Or More Unaccountable In Purely Mundane Terms Than The Stirrings He Finds In Himself, Usually Fitful But Sometimes Overwhelming, To Look Beyond His Animal Existence And Not Be Fully Satisfied With Its Immediate Substance. He Lacks The Complacency Of The Other Animals: He Is Obsessed By Pride And Guilt, Pride At Being Something More Than A Mere Animal, Built At Falling Short Of The High Aims He Sets For Himself.

War Is The Supreme Drama Of A Completely Mechanized Society.