I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent.

To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong.