The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.