Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.

... 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.

children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster that God Himself likes money -- a theory which convinces nobody -- or it can give him an apologetic, halfhearted invitation to go out and get himself crucified.

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.

Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.