Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
“A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.”
“I'm very proud that our country still produces people like my son, who choose the path less traveled; that knowingly step up to serve, even though our country is tearing itself apart with things like political machinations.”