You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

The greatest miracle of all, the human being.

To know the good is to react against the bad. Indifference is the mark of deprivation.

To be at peace with self, to find company and nourishment in self-this would be the test of the free and productive psyche.

Promiscuous ... was a word I had never applied to myself. Possibly no one ever does, for it is a sordid word, reducing many valuable moments to nothing more than doglike copulation.