Ownership Is Not A Vice,

If I Have Accomplished Anything Good, Then It's Mainly Because I've Been Driven By The Need To Know Whether I Can Accomplish Things I'm Not Sure I Have The Capacity For.

Let Us Admit That Most Of Us Writers Feel An Essential Aversion To Politics. By Taking Such A Position, However, We Accept The Perverted Principle Of Specialization, According To Which Some Are Paid To Write About The Horrors Of The World And Human Responsibility And Others To Deal With Those Horrors And Bear The Human Responsibility For Them.

The Idea Of Human Rights And Freedoms Must Be An Integral Part Of Any Meaningful World Order. Yet, I Think It Must Be Anchored In A Different Place, And In A Different Way, Than Has Been The Case So Far. If It Is To Be More Than Just A Slogan Mocked By Half The World, It Cannot Be Expressed In The Language Of A Departing Era, And It Must Not Be Mere Froth Floating On The Subsiding Waters Of Faith In A Purely Scientific Relationship To The World.

It Lies In Human Nature That Where You Experience Your First Laughs, You Also Remember The Age Kindly.

Responsibility Is Something Higher Than My Family, My Country, My Firm, My Success. Responsibility To The Order Of Being, Where, And Only Where, They Will Be Properly Judged.