We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas.

All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it will be caused by religion. I count Prohibition as a part of religion, for it has surely become so in the United States. The Prohibitionists, seeing all their other arguments destroyed by the logic of events, have fallen back upon the mystical doctrine that God is somehow on their side, and that opposing them thus takes on the character of blasphemy.

Hamlet has been played by 5,000 actors, no wonder he is crazy.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh.