Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded "I ate civilization.

I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive.

Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

Sleep is the most blessed and blessing of all natural graces.

If the Prince of Peace should come to earth, one of the first things he would do would be to put psychiatrists in their place.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.