Sensuality reconciles us with the human race. The misanthropy of the old is due in large part to the fading of the magic glow of desire.

The most troublesome problem which confronts social engineering is how to provide for the untalented and, what is equally important, how to provide against them.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

We can never have enough of that which we really do not want.

We can be satisfied with moderate confidence in ourselves and with a moderately good opinion of ourselves, but the faith we have in a holy cause has to be extravagant and uncompromising.

The difficult and risky task of meeting and mastering the new . . . is not undertaken by the vanguard of society but by its rear. It is the misfits, failures, fugitives, outcasts and their like who are among the first to grapple with the new.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.