I believe it's my pastoral duty to convert friends to atheism.

a writer must always tell the truth (unless he's a journalist)

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

What we are is seldom what we want to be, while what we want to be is either denied us or changes with the seasons.

There's a lot to be said for being nouveau riche, and the Reagans mean to say it all.

I keep as far from children as possible. I don't like the size of them; the scale is all wrong. The head tends to be too big for the bodies and the hands and feet are a disaster and they keep falling into things, and the nakedness of their bad character.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.