Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

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

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

A poet over 30 is pathetic

Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.