We value virtue but do not discuss it. The honest bookkeeper, the faithful wife, the earnest scholar get little of our attention compared to the embezzler, the tramp, the cheat.

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

It's one of the great fallacies, it seems to me, that time gives much of anything but years and sadness to man.

Fearful and unprepared, we have assumed lordship over the life or death of the whole world, of all living things.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.