In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in it.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

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

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.

Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

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.