It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.

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.

The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

[Art is] an attempt to escape from life.