Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save within very narrow limits.

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can always teach it with success, no matter how little he knows of technical pedagogy.

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

Nature abhors a moron.

As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.