Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament, and embrace it with passion, if we want to be happy.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

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.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.