Pessimism Is The Affectation Of Youth, The

... In The Nineteen-thirties ... The Most Casual Reader Of Murder Mysteries Could Infallibly Detect The Villain, As Soon As There Entered A Character Who Had Recently Washed His Neck And Did Not Commit Mayhem On The English Language.

... Beauty, Like Ecstasy, Has Always Been Hostile To The Commonplace. And The Commonplace, Under Its Popular Label Of The Normal,has Been The Supreme Authority For Homo Sapiens Since The Days When He Was Probably Arboreal.

I Revolted From Sentimentality, Less Because It Was False Than Because It Was Cruel.

The Pathos Of Life Is Worse Than The Tragedy.

Dignity Is An Anachronism.