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 am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

Working with children is the easiest part of educating for democracy, because children are still undefeated and have no stake in being prejudiced.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

There are dozens of ways of failing to make money. It is one thing to fail to make money because your single talent happens to be a flair amounting to genius for translating the plays of Aristophanes. It is quite another thing to fail to make money because you are black, or a child, or a woman.