She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

Educated people do indeed speak the same languages; cultivated ones need not speak at all.

Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about.

Nominally a great age of scientific inquiry, ours has become an age of superstition about the infallibility of science; of almost mystical faith in its non-mystical methods; above all-which perhaps most explains the expert's sovereignty-of external verities; of traffic-cop morality and rabbit-test truth.

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.

Conformity may not always reign in the prosperous bourgeois suburb, but it ultimately always governs.