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.

In violence, we forget who we are

Laughter is the great antidote for self-pity, maybe a specific for the malady, yet probably it does tend to dry one's feelings out a little, as if by exposing them to a vigorous wind.

Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened person draw near the source of infection, supposedly in a scientific spirit, but really to sniff the vapors and dally with the possibility.

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated pastimes: sonneteering, the lute, games and acrostics, travel, gentlemanly studies and sports, hunting and hawking, treated as arts.

The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof