"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas."
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Source: Edmund Wilson (1997). “The Edmund Wilson Reader”
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