the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.

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

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

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

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

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