being in the middle class is a feeling as well as an income level.

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

the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.

Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

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