The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

The American language is in a state of flux based upon survival of the unfittest.

There is no fury like an ex-wife searching for a new lover.