What we need in this country is a general improvement in eating. We have the best raw materials in the world, both quantitatively and qualitatively, but most of them are ruined in the process of preparing them for the table.

What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.

Religion is "so absurd that it comes close to imbecility."

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

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.