"Why is doubt the one thing we're never skeptical of? We question other peoples' beliefs, and the more sure they are the more we doubt them. But it never occurs to us to doubt our own doubt. Question our own questions. We think our questions are answers."

"Our prestige abroad, what other peoples think of us, is not of importance only to those Americans who work …"

"We get to see it! January 1st, 2000! We get to see... all those fundamentalist preachers having to do their…"

"The thought, however, of his girls having to work for money was so utterly repulsive to him that he could n…"

"We need to abandon the economist's notion of the economy as a machine, with its attendant concept of equili…"

"What would people think of a tradesman, that was to give a ball in his shop, hire performers, and hand refr…"

"In the twentieth century, the essence of man is not that he is a rational, or a political, or a sinful, or …"