Bernard Wolfe studied at Yale, taught at Bryn Mawr, served in the Merchant Marine, edited Paramount Newsreel, wrote Really the Blues with "Mezz" Mezzrow, and did a publicity stint on Broadway.
“They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.”
“Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”
“The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.”
“Any ceremony performed in the absence of reasonable knowledge as to cause and effect is magic.”