Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.