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

prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great deal of courage. It is a matter of a great many people having just a little courage.

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.

when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.