More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money.

it is a surprising thing that the largest city in the world should have a population as gentle and pleasant and intimate and considerate and comforting as a little bit of a place where everybody knows everybody and everything, but astonishing or not it is perfectly true and the inhabitants of New York are just like that, and they are like that and this thing is a delightful, natural and gentle and sweet and comforting thing.

Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Patriarchal Poetry makes mistakes.

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

But then of course a philosophy is not the same thing as a style.