The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better sort, is not only quite as bad as Upton Sinclair says it is, but 10 times worse

Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

I am never much interested in the effects of what I write....I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two times out of three I know something about the reviewer, and in very few cases have I any respect for his judgments. Thus his praise, if he praises me, leaves me unmoved. I can't recall any review that has even influenced me in the slightest. I live in sort of a vacuum, and I suspect that most other writers do, too. It is hard to imagine one of the great ones paying any serious attention to contemporary opinion.

During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.