Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'

Albert Einstein, who had been exiled from Germany for his guilty devotion to mathematics, world peace, and the violin, was now exiled from America for the same crimes.

I was brought up to believe that the Christian God wasn’t a scared and compromising public servant, but the creator of the whole merciless truth, and I reckon that training spoiled me – I actually took my teachers seriously!

The author says one character’s definition of a classic is any book he’d heard of before he was thirty.

Jessup was a littlish man, skinny, smiling, well tanned, with a small gray mustache, a small and well-trimmed gray beard – in a community where to sport a beard was to confess one’s self a farmer, a Civil War veteran, or a Seventh Day Adventist. Doremus’s detractors said that he maintained the beard just to be “highbrow” and “different,” to try to appear “artistic.” Possibly they were right.

Going seventy miles an hour but not going anywhere – not enough imagination to want to go anywhere! Getting their music by turning a dial. Getting their phrases from the comic strips instead of from Shakespeare and the Bible and Veblen and Old Bill Sumner. Pap-fed flabs!

Do you think it’s so snobbish, to want to see something besides one’s fellow citizens abroad?

Say, I swear the best Messiah in the whole show is this darky, Father Divine.