Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.

H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.

Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.

What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.