Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above.

When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.

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

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours.