So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.

Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.

So much of learning to be an American is learning not to let your individuality become a nuisance.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

It is idle to talk of civil liberties to adults who were systematically taught in adolescence that they had none; and it is sheer hypocrisy to call such people freedom loving.