No share-pusher could vend his worthless stock, if he could not count on meeting, in his prospective victim, an unscrupulous avarice as vicious as his own, but stupider. Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

There is, in fact, a paradox about working to serve the community, and it is this: that to aim directly at serving the community is to falsify the work; the only way to serve the community is to forget the community and serve the work.

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Sex is every man's loco spot ... he'll take a disappointment, but not a humiliation.

Every great man has a woman behind him ... And every great woman has some man or other in front of her, tripping her up.