Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow.
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
An American who can make money, invoke God, and be no better than his neighbor, has nothing to fear but truth itself.
The barbarian weapon is fission: the splitting asunder. It has been perfected for death. Our only weapon is fusion: an imperfect process still, though designed for life.
You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.
You mix the affluence of the white and the poverty of the black and you do not get a civilized society. Integration on an equal level is one thing. Mixing on an unequal level is another.
One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.
It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.
To lead means to direct and to exact, and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin, the generality, and God (the Word).
People minus space equals Poverty ... What is living for? If the answer is a life of dignity, decency and opportunity, then every increase in population means a decrease in all three. The crowd is a threat to every single being.
Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.
To be successful in the world of art you must, of course, have talent, although very small talents have gone very far in this age. Just as the microphone gave volume to voices that had none, so does the science of press-agentry magnify limited skills into highly saleable properties.
It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.
The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.
The world of sight is still limitless. It is the artist who limits vision to the cramped dimensions of his own ego.
[The sea] is the healer and the reviver, it cleanses the cavities of self-disgust and melancholy, of sloth and negation with the salt solution of life. It cures the lethargies of flesh and spirit with the slap and shake of elemental force. It cradles and comforts. Give it trust and it holds you secure; fight it and it kills.
Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.
The suppression of civil liberties is too many less a matter for horror than the curtailment of the freedom to profit.
No man is a Christian who cheats his fellows, perverts the truth, or speaks of a "clean bomb" yet he will be the first to make public his faith in God.
The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.
Minds are cluttered from the age of six with the values of others-values which bear little relation to their own private capacities, needs and desires.
In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.
Artists never make wars. They are too busy making life out of the matter of their visions.
Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?
In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and to dying by denying them in word, in fact, and - above all - in worth.
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