There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God.

The difference between the smartest dog and the stupidest man - say a Tennessee Holy Roller - is really very small.

No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional politicians are dedicated wholeheartedly to waste and corruption. They are the enemies of every decent man.

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted