The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men.