The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.

If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But if that is their mood, then they had better proceed toward their aim by changing the Constitution and not by forgetting it.

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously.

People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.