The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

The privileged have regularly invited their own destruction with their greed.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

In the United States all business not transacted over the telephone is accomplished in conjunction with alcohol or food, often under conditions of advanced intoxication. This is a fact of the utmost importance for the visitor of limited funds... for it means that the most expensive restaurants are, with rare exceptions, the worst.

A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions.

I was brought up in southwestern Ontario where we were taught that Canadian patriotism should not withstand anything more than a five-dollar-a-month wage differential. Anything more than that and you went to Detroit.