Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.

Whatever happens in a government could have happened differently, and it usually would have been better if it had.

The partisans of eugenic planning hear that other music, the music that says that there shall be nothing random in the world, nothing independent, nothing moved by its own vitality, nothing out of keeping with some idea: even our children must not be our progeny, but our creation.

Anxiety is the essential condition of intellectual and artistic creation and everything that is finest in human history.