Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake.

What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no organized determination to think things out. What is there is a highly self-conscious and insipid correctness, a bloodless respectability submergence of matter in manner--in brief, what is there is the feeble, uninspiring quality of German painting and English music.