There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.