Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

To be a champion you must live like one.