Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

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

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

I don't like seeing people angry.

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates