A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open. - E.B. White

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management

Both tend to speak of national security as though it were still capable of being dissociated from universal well-being; in fact, sometimes in these political addresses it sounds as though this nation, or any nation, through force of character or force of arms, could damn well rise above planetary considerations, as though we were greater than our environment, as though the national verve somehow transcended the natural world.