The labor of keeping house is labor in its most naked state, for labor is toil that never finishes, toil that has to be begun again the moment it is completed, toil that is destroyed and consumed by the life process

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

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

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is to become a writer.

The things of this world reveal their essential absurdity when they are put in the Venetian context. In the unreal realm of the canals, as in a Swiftian Lilliput, the real world, with its contrivances, appears as a vast folly.

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