Individualism is rather like innocence: There must be something unconscious about it.

We might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, insists on laying it down to others.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.

In an automobile civilization, which was one of constant motion and activity, there was almost no time to think; in a television one, there is small desire.

The American Way is so restlessly creative as to be essentially destructive; the American Way is to carry common sense itself almost to the point of madness.

Ours is the country where, in order to sell your product, you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.

With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.