The True Index Of A Man's Character

The Only Happy Talkers Are Dandies Who Extract Pleasure From The Very Perishability Of Their Material And Who Would Not Be Able To Tolerate The Isolation Of All Other Forms Of Composition; For Most Good Talkers, When They Have Run Down, Are Miserable; They Know That They Have Betrayed Themselves, That They Have Taken Material Which Should Have A Life Of Its Own, To Dispense It In Noises Upon The Air.

Civilization Is Maintained By A Very Few People In A Small Number Of Places And We Need Only Some Bombs And A Few Prisons To Blot It Out Altogether.

The American Language Is In A State Of Flux Based Upon Survival Of The Unfittest.

No-one Was Ever Made Wretched In A Brothel.

Optimism And Self-pity Are The Positive And Negative Poles Of Modern Cowardice.