For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

The proper study of mankind is books.

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.

This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country´s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few.

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.