it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right. Where the traditional ethic derives its sanction from the superiority of a few, the pseudo-ethic derives its sanction from the inferiority of a great many. The pseudo-ethic is keyed, not to the spiritually gifted, but to the spiritually ungifted.

... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

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

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

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.