How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.

Curses on the law! Most of my fellow citizens are the sorry consequences of uncommitted abortions.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so they believe they are clever as he.