No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

Wherever I sit is the head of the table.

One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature… the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

No man ever quite believes in any other man.