advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.

All our acts have sacramental possibilities.

I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.

Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.

... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.