The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.

Perhaps the universe is nothing but an equilibrium of idiocies.

Religions are the great fairy tales of conscience.