I roll out of my couch every morning with the more agreeable expectations.

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions.

Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives.

I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.