"A phrase begins life as a literary expression; its felicity leads to its lazy repetition; and repetition soon establishes it as a legal formula, undiscriminatingly used to express different and sometimes contradictory ideas."

"Of course, you can sit down and have something you want to say. But then you must let its expression be born in you and on the paper. Don't hold too tight; allow it to come out how it needs to rather …"

"A severe morality holds that intercourse has something wrong about it if it is ever done except explicitly as being required for that preservation of human life which is what makes intercourse a good …"

"a blueprint for European prosperity and stability. ... the result of a political malaise following upon the failure of Socialists to use the sovereign power of their Parliaments to plan their economic…"

"Only a little while ago the oceans seemed unassailable—too big and stable to be hurt by man, too teeming with life to let him ever go hungry. But now we know better. Suddenly, even the myriad creature…"