Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.

You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.