We live in a time of mediocre leadership—political and intellectual.
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.
The majority of business people are sheeple.
Radio is a bag of mediocrity where little men with carbon minds wallow in sluice of their own making.
Powerful women often get concerned with this idea that they're going to be seen in this unforgiving light. Screw that. It's so old-fashioned... It's so uninspired and actually really cowardly.
American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.