I have looked warily at anthropologists ever since the day when I went to hear a great Greek scholar lecture on the Iliad, and listened for an hour to talk about bull-roarers and leopard-societies.

There are only three things worthwhile -- fighting, drinking, and making love.

Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

Conventional manners are a kind of literacy test for the alien who comes among us.

men demand everything and are not satisfied until sex blinds them into thinking they have got it.

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Nothing makes people so worthy of compliments as receiving them. One is more delightful for being told one is delightful-just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.