Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

The Public ... demands certainties ... But there are not certainties

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true.

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.

A skeptic as to all ideas, including especially my own, I have never suffered a pang when the ideas of some other imbecile prevailed.

A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.