Driving a car, you are in danger of killing; walking or standing, of being killed.

I am for the ones who represent sense, and so was Jane Austen.

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

To be disesteemed by people you don't have much respect for is not the worst fate.

The desire to believe the best of people is a prerequisite for intercourse with strangers; suspicion is reserved for friends.

It has to be acknowledged that in capitalist society, with its herds of hippies, originality has become a sort of fringe benefit, a mere convention, accepted obsolescence, the Beatnik model being turned in for the Hippie model, as though strangely obedient to capitalist laws of marketing.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.