Property is organized robbery.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.