The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

When you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the devilish in it-that it fits its proprietor tightly yet ever so loosely, as his skin fits him. It is, in fact, quite as seriously an integral part of him as that skin is. . . . In brief, a style is always the outward and visible symbol of a man, and cannot be anything else.

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.