An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.

The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups, and most of them, it must be manifest, are of dubious wisdom and even more dubious honesty. Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle...

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.