the unconscious forces that govern accessible memory are the most arbitrary of editors and the absolute masters of our lives.

what you fear, you invite.

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.