Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 9, 1911 Death: August 2, 1972
Comedy is something that we can all share, no matter what language we speak or our background, it has the power to unite us all..
When there is official censorship it is a sign that speech is serious. Where there is none, it is pretty certain that the official spokesmen have all….
It rarely adds anything to say, "In my opinion" - not even modesty. Naturally a sentence is only your opinion; and you are not the Pope..
The "brightness" of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulat….
An awkward consequence of heightening experience when one is inexperienced, of self-transcendence when one has not much world to lose, is that afterw….
My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfa….
There is only one curriculum, no matter what the method of education: what is basic and universal in human experience and practice, the underlying st….
We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men..
To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain o….
The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled ….
Few great men could pass personnel..
Let me formulate the artistic disposition as follows: it is reacting with one's ideal to the flaw in oneself and in the world, and somehow making tha….
The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreati….
Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may soon cease to watch televisio….
Thwarted, or starved, in the important objects proper to young capacities, the boys and young men naturally find or invent deviant objects for themse….
I move in a society so devoid of ordinary reality that I am continually stopping to teach good sense, to give support, to help out, as a young gangst….
Suppose you had the revolution you are talking and dreaming about. Suppose your side had won, and you had the kind of society you wanted. How would y….
The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-a….
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by thos….
Penology...has become torture and foolishness, a waste of money and a cause of crime...a blotting out of sight and heightening of social anxiety..
Few great men would have got past personnel..