The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.

The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.