Example is better than precept.

The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality

In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.

The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.