To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style.

And no wonder; for the new technique of "subliminal projection," as it was called, was intimately associated with mass entertainment, and in the life of civilized human beings massed entertainment now plays a part comparable to that played in the Middle Ages be religion.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.