There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

Fear is the deep motive of abstract art - fear of a repellent civilization which is dominated by the power of things. ... who can be surprised if, more sensitive than the others, the artist is terrified by the power things have acquired over us?

the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?