Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

The profound immoralities of our time are cruelty, indifference, injustice and the use of others as means rather than ends in themselves.

Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own personal pattern out of a hundred choices. Not letting it be picked for you—either by the Establishment, or by the Rebels. Conformity of Hip is no better than Conformity of Square.

More trouble is caused in this world by indiscreet answers than by indiscreet questions.

By the time a man asks you for advice, he has generally made up his mind what he wants to do, and is looking for confirmation rather than counseling.

A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in the future.