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

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

in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.

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

Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.

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