Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.