The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.