Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in Congress have the right to issue money and to determine the value thereof. And 120 million, 120 million suckers have lamentably failed to insist on the observation of this quite decided law. ... Now the point at which embezzlement of the nation's funds on the part of her officers becomes treason can probably be decided only by jurists, and not by hand-picked judges who support illegality.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.