There is nothing worth having that can he obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating.

Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

I don't necessarily love the sports per se I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

No one is so completely disenchanted with the world or knows it so thoroughly or is so utterly disgusted with it that when it begins to smile upon him he does not become partially reconciled to it.

If I am still doing what I'm doing and I still have respect in this town haven't done anything completely and utterly stupid then I'll be happy with myself.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

And these two elements are at odds with one another because Freud is utterly adversary to almost all the ways of structuring the human experience found in Western religions. No Western religion can countenance Freud's view of man.

I am utterly struck how 300 years after his execution Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.

There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.