When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.