The students [of the 60's] substituted conspicuous compassion for their parents' conspicuous consumption.

Law may prescribe that the male nipples be made equal to the female ones, but they still will not give milk.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

An education, other than purely professional or technical, can even seem to be an impediment.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Commitment is a word invented in our abstract modernity to signify the absence of any real motives in the soul for moral dedication.