television and radio violence was considered by most experts of minimal importance as a contributory cause of youthful killing. ... there were always enough experts to assure the public that crime and violence had nothing to do with crime and violence.

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 A "modern" painting can be outdated because it was a product of the moment and not of time.

A candidate for office can have no greater advantage than muddled syntax; no greater liability than a command of language.

The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.

the car, by bisecting the human outline, diminishes it, producing a race of half-people in a motion not of their own making

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

Revelation is the marriage of knowing and feeling.