Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

Sheep with a nasty side.

No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.