The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

The world has long observed that small acts of immorality, if repeated, will destroy character. It is equally manifest, though never said, that uttering nonsense and half-truth without cease ends by destroying Intellect

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.