What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood.

When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.

The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.

Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument.