The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.