In a well-run mental household there ought to be a thorough cleaning at the threshold of consciousness a few times a year.

Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.

Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.

To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all.

What the teachers digest, the pupils eat.