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

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.

Is there no end to this escalation of desire?

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

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