New York is the place where all the aspirations of the western world meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

Never underestimate the bad taste of the American public

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor