In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

All new news is old news happening to new people