The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.

Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.

You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.

We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hardworking.

There is nothing "ordinary" about reality.