The Life Of Sense Begins

In An Automobile Civilization, Which Was One Of Constant Motion And Activity, There Was Almost No Time To Think; In A Television One, There Is Small Desire.

Highly Educated Bores Are By Far The Worst; They Know So Much, In Such Fiendish Detail, To Be Boring About.

Someone Who Gossips Well Has A Reputation For Being Good Company Or Even A Wit, Never For Being A Gossip.

Nominally A Great Age Of Scientific Inquiry, Ours Has Become An Age Of Superstition About The Infallibility Of Science; Of Almost Mystical Faith In Its Non-mystical Methods; Above All-which Perhaps Most Explains The Expert's Sovereignty-of External Verities; Of Traffic-cop Morality And Rabbit-test Truth.

We Might Define An Eccentric As A Man Who Is A Law Unto Himself, And A Crank As One Who, Having Determined What The Law Is, Insists On Laying It Down To Others.