"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals."
"I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees."
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Source: Edmund WIlson (1953). “To the Finland Station”
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