Americans like to make money; Canadians like to audit it. I don't know of any other country where the accountant enjoys a higher social and moral status.

Nobody is capable of of free speech unless he knows how to use language, and such knowledge is not a gift: it has to learned and worked at.

Every human society possesses a mythology which is inherited, transmitted and diversified by literature.

Advertising - a judicious mixture of flattery and threats.

Literature is not a subject of study, but an object of study.

A snowflake is probably quite unconscious of forming a crystal, but what it does may be worth study even if we are willing to leave its inner mental processes alone.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.