Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.