A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.