Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

Hollywood, America's greatest modern contribution to world culture, is a business, a religion, an art form, and a state of mind.

Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

Once you have become the centre of a conflict in a complex governmental enterprise you have the obligation to resign.

[On U.S. universities:] The bland leading the bland.

If men are obsolete, then women will soon be extinct -- unless we rush down that ominous Brave New World path where women clone themselves by parthenogenesis, as famously do Komodo dragons, hammerhead sharks, and pit vipers.