Yet friendship, I believe, is essential to intellectuals. It is probably the growth hormone the mind requires as it begins its activity of producing and exchanging ideas. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk. In the course of my history, not love or marriage so much as friendship has promoted growth.

Be truthful... and pay attention. I would also recommend the avoidance of credit cards.

Old money is fully as moronic as new money but it has inherited an appearance of cultivation.

An unrectified case of injustice has a terrible way of lingering, restlessly, in the social atmosphere like an unfinished question.

A politician or political thinker who calls himself a political realist is usually boasting that he sees politics, so to speak, in the raw; he is generally a proclaimed cynic and pessimist who makes it his business to look behind words and fine speeches for the motive. This motive is always low.

The consumer today is the victim of the manufacturer who launches on him a regiment of products for which he must make room in his soul.

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake.