I am against slavery simply because I dislike slaves.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

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