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.

You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.

A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.

Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.

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

What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues into a few elemental fears, its incessant reduction of all reflection to mere emotion.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.