I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.