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.

What I know about money, I learned the hard way – by having had it.

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

In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.

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

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.