Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence - those are the three pillars of Western prosperity.
The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
And that," put in the Director sententiously, "that is the secret of happiness and virtue — liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.