The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous.

The past is not what it was.

[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

Psychoanalysis is a science conducted by lunatics for lunatics. They are generally concerned with proving that people are irresponsible; and they certainly succeed in proving that some people are

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.

Thinking means connecting things, and stops if they cannot be connected.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.