Religion is the opium of the poor.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it.

Good dialogue is not real speech-it's the illusion of real speech.

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.