He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of what a fine art it was--if you couldn't run a machine. A duel was under way.

I wish you'd help me look into a more interesting problem - namely, my sanity.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

Homo-Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from battles between jolly green giants.

I am committing suicide by cigarette, ” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks.

A woman's not a woman till the pills wear off.

What counts that we’re not counting?

Don't listen when they scoff That you are too old and I am young, For I am old enough to know better And you are young enough not to care.

Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations.

It's about the climate-change "denial industry", ...we should have war crimes trials for these bastards - some sort of climate Nuremberg.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable.

There are three kinds of people who run toward disaster, not away: cops, firemen and reporters.

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual.

If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.

To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides