That's what this country needs -- more books!

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.