In matters of faith, inconvenient evidence is always suppressed while contradictions go unnoticed.

Who gives a damn about being remembered? That's really for amateurs.

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.

That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want to do it. They have become writers out of reasons of ambition. It must be a great strain to them to make marks on a page when they really have nothing much to say, and don’t enjoy doing it. I’m not so sure what I have to say but I certainly enjoy making sentences.

Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.

Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as far from them as possible. I don't like the sight of them. The scale is all wrongs. The heads tend to be too big for the bodies, and the hands and feet are a disaster. They keep falling into things. The nakedness of their bad character! We adults have learned how to disguise our terrible character, but children, well, they are like grotesque drawings of us. They should be neither seen nor heard, and no one must make another one.

As Brooks Adams put it, the sole problem of our ruling class is whether to coerce or to bribe the powerless majority.