Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

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

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.

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

The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future.

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