Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and that other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even...malicious.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all.

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.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.