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

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

But whether the risks to which liberty exposes us are moral or physical our right to liberty involves the right to run them. A man who is not free to risk his neck as an aviator or his soul as a heretic is not free at all; and the right to liberty begins, not at the age of 21 years but 21 seconds.

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.