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

The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.

The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music.

Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.

The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combated at the public expense, not fostered.