Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.

Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?

One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary subm…

Young men and young women meet each other with much less difficulty than was formerly the case, and every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excite…

Always looking at himself in mirrors to make sure he was sufficiently outrageous.

When Marilyn Monroe got out of the game, I wrote something like, 'Southern California's special horror notwithstanding, if the world offered nothing, nowhere t…

To understand a man, you must know his memories. The same is true of a nation.