The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

Mayonnaise, like hollandaise, was invented by the French to cover up the flavor of spoiled flesh, stale vegetables, rotten fish. Beware the sauce! Where food comes beslobbered with an elegant slime you may well suspect the integrity of the basic ingredients.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

The function of football, soccer, basketball and other passion-sports in modern industrial society is the transference of boredom, frustration, anger and rage into socially acceptable forms of combat. A temporary substitute for war; for nationalism; identification with something bigger than the self.

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. (p 41)