If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick.

The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

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

A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

It is disgusting to pick your teeth; what is vulgar is to use a gold toothpick.

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.

True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.