I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

Identity is not found, the way Pharaoh's daughter found Moses in the bulrushes. Identity is built.

I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.

There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.