For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and w… - Louis Kronenberger

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.

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

On a very rough-and-ready basis 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. An eccentric puts ice cream on steak simply because he likes it; should a crank do so, he would endow the act with moral grandeur and straightaway denounce as sinners (or reactionaries) all who failed to follow suit […] Cranks, at their most familiar, are a sort of peevish prophets, and it's not enough that they should be in the right; others must also be in the wrong.