Land Was Created To Provide A Place

Bureaucracies Are Designed To Perform Public Business. But As Soon As A Bureaucracy Is Established, It Develops An Autonomous Spiritual Life And Comes To Regard The Public As Its Enemy.

It Seems Not To Have Been Written. It Is The Quintessence Of Life. It Is The Basic Truth.

In Every Age 'the Good Old Days' Were A Myth. No One Ever Thought They Were Good At The Time. For Every Age Has Consisted Of Crises That Seemed Intolerable To The People Who Lived Through Them.

The Humorous Man Recognizes That Absolute Purity, Absolute Justice, Absolute Logic And Perfection Are Beyond Human Achievement And That Men Have Been Able To Live Happily For Thousands Of Years In A State Of Genial Frailty.

Nothing A Man Writes Can Please Him As Profoundly As Something He Does With His Back, Shoulders And Hands. For Writing Is An Artificial Activity. It Is A Lonely And Private Substitute For Conversation.