Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.

Among politicians and businessmen, *Pragmatism* is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'

Literature, like anything else, can become a wearisome business if you make a lifetime specialty of it. A healthy, wholesome man would no more spend his entire life reading great books than he would packing cookies for Nabisco.

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.

Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.

Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.

There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.