Half the American population no longer reads newspapers: plainly, they are the clever half.

Fifty percent of people won't vote, and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.

I'm a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia's tap water.

I can't name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I'm told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don't print them in 'The New York Times.'

Overcrowding in the cities is producing a collective madness in which irrational violence flourishes because man needs more space in which to be than the modern city allows.

On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.