One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

The older I grow the less I esteem mere ideas. In politics, particularly, they are transient and unimportant. . . . There are only men who have character and men who lack it.

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

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

Every man is his own hell.

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