I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.