I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

If one is not oneself a sage or saint, the best thing one can do is to study the words of those who were.

Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.