Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?

Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.