Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.

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

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

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

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.