One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the rigid counter-fetishism.

In general, American social life constitutes an evasion of talking to people. Most Americans don't, in any vital sense, get together; they only do things together.

Prig and philistine, Ph.D. and C.P.A., despot of English 218c and big shot of the Kiwanis Club-how much, at bottom, they both hate Art, and how hard it is to know which of them hates it the more.

The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.

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

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

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