The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.

Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.

Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

There is a good deal of solemn cant about the common interests of capital and labor. As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each others throat.