It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

We must be prepared to pay a price for freedom, for no price that is ever asked for it is half the cost of doing without it.

Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.

Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.

Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.