“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.”
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.