An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat