If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

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.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.