I don't think the advertisers have any real idea of their power not only to reflect but to mould society.

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

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

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

flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

performance is an act of faith.