Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.