The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
H. L. MenckenEvery reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.
H. L. MenckenNo form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.
H. L. MenckenOne horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
H. L. Mencken