A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.

It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in which God hath placed him, as it is to assume that his country is against the artist.

There are some politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, would promise them missionaries in every pot.

The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and fit a coat seems to me an admirable man, and by the same token a university professor who knows little or nothing of the thing he presumes to teach seems to me to be a fraud and a rascal.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.