“Although Americans justify their self-interest in moral terms, their true interest is never itself moral.”

“I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.”

“...Leggett feels that to be excitingly right in general is better than to be dully accurate in particular. That is why he is such an effective journalist.”

“I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.”

“We do not want to old to be sharper than we. It is bad enough that they were there first, and got the best things.”

“I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.”

“The land of easy mathematics where he who works adds up and he who retires subtracts.”

“At the age of 45, most days in Tucson were spent feeling like I was on the summit of Mauna Kea, as I was exhibiting debilitating health symptoms that corresponded to what I saw at very high altitud...”

“The hour is only long thus, if you've waited.”