Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

Machines are admirable and tyrannize only with the user's consent. Where, then, is the enemy? Not where the machine gives relief from drudgery but where human judgment abdicates. The smoothest machine-made product of the age is the organization man, for even the best organizing principle tends to corrupt, and the mechanical principle corrupts absolutely.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

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