The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

Life is a system of recurrent pairs, the poison and the antidote being eternally packaged together by some considerate heavenly druggist.

Illiteracy at the poverty level (mainly a matter of bad grammar) does not alarm me nearly as much as the illiteracy of the well-to-do.

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

... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.