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

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

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

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.