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

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

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

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

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.

The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.