Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.

Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be discovered.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.