Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.

No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife.

To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves.

Plasticene and self-expression will not solve the problems of education. Nor will technology and vocational guidance; nor the classics and the Hundred Best Books.

... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking.