Half a truth is better than no politics.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

Always be comic in a tragedy. What the deuce else can you do?

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?