“The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.”

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”

“There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.”

“Ours must be the first age whose great goal on a nonmaterial plane is not fulfillment but adjustment.”

“Ours is the country where in order to sell your product you don't so much point out its merits as you first work like hell to sell yourself.”

“Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.”