The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

The great rule: If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

I am grateful that I am not as judgmental as all those censorious, self-righteous people around me. In each of us there is a little of all of us.

There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.

The thoughts written on the walls of madhouses by their inmates might be worth publicizing.

It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories.