Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.