All government is, in its essence, organized exploitation, and in virtually all of its existing forms it is the implacable enemy of every industrious and well-disposed man.

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.

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

The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.