In violence, we forget who we are

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

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

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

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.

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.

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.