A high standard of living is usually accompanied by a low standard of thinking.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

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

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the boxes; a sort of sterile sobriety ill-fitted to the passionate geometry of music.

Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.