A seventeenth-century painting can be "modern" because the living eye finds it fresh and new. A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

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.

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

Self-restraint may be alien to the human temperament, but humanity without restraint will dig its own grave.

All people talk of money sometimes, everywhere. But not for all people, everywhere, is money the addiction, the obsession, the stimulant, that it seems to be in New York. It is a large part of the clamor, and it is the voice - quite literally - of the man in the street.

Euthanasia ... is simply to be able to die with dignity at a moment when life is devoid of it.

It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.