The examined life has always been pretty well confined to a privileged class.

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.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

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

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.

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely.