Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

The essence of self-fulfillment and autonomous culture is an unshakable egotism.

Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn