Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction.

In a city you thought of all life as human life. You had to live in the heart of the woods to realize that humanity was a slight ripple on the surface of a flood of life that seeped into every vacant crack, flowed into every biological vacuum the moment it occurred.

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of rationalizing.

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

the old ploy of the powerful: never refuse when you can confuse. Distraction and delay are always better than obstruction.

... law is a substitute for love.

Civilization is a fiction which becomes a fact only as long as everyone can believe in it. It is the cynic, rather than the rebel, who pulls down the whole flimsy structure periodically throughout history.