A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

It's great to get out of the study and work with real living and breathing people.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

If I had to give a definition of capitalism I would say: the process whereby American girls turn into American women.

You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.

You see, I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth.