The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

That sinister Stonehenge of economic man, Rockefeller Center.

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Beautiful women must think about their beauty as capitalists think about their investments or politicians about their majorities; it is all they have to insure their places in the world.

There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

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.