Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

[T]here is only one sound argument for democracy, and that is the argument that it is a crime for any man to hold himself out as better than other men, and, above all, a most heinous offense for him to prove it.

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.