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

When I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

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

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.

Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful. It reaches up magnificently-and a good half of it is palpably useless.

The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.