Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.

the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

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

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.