The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.

If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other one.

Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected. Its evil effects must be plain enough to everyone. All it accomplishes is (a) to throw a veil of sanctity about ideas that violate every intellectual decency, and (b) to make every theologian a sort of chartered libertine. No doubt it is mainly to blame for the appalling slowness with which really sound notions make their way in the world.