We pity or condemn the communist peoples of the world for being bound in the chains of doctrine. So are we. Our doctrine runs as follows: Our Way is the Only Way.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

Art can excite, titillate, please, entertain, and sometimes shock; but its ultimate function is to ennoble.

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

The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

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.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.