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.

Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

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.

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

Ours must be the first age whose great goal, on a nonmaterial plane, is not fulfillment but adjustment; and perhaps just such a goal has served as maladjustment's weapon.

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

Temperament, like liberty, is important despite how many crimes are committed in its name.