You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.