A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

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

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.

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

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

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