when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them..

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns..

One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of a few people having a great dea….

The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmos….

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated..

Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough….

I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12" x 8" black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not c….

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had..

Democracy makes many taxing demands on its practitioners, but suspension of the intelligence is not one of them..

... organized religion, in a dominating business society, can do only one of two things. It can either assure the communicant with uneasy bluster tha….

This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth..

The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand..

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action..

the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness….

In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together..

It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly be….

A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man..

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife..

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it..

Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls..

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide ….