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.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at everyone's being worse off.

The real end of the world is the destruction of the spirit; the other kind depends on the insignificant attempt to see whether after such a destruction the world can go on.

Talent is often a defect in character.

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