Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

No reporter of my generation, whatever his genius, ever really rated spats and a walking stick until he had covered both a lynching and a revolution.

The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto cure a slight hyperacidity by prescribing a carload of burned oyster-shells.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.