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

The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Why should human females become sterile in their forties, while female crocodiles continue to lay eggs into their third century?

The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.

If you want to write, keep cats.