Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.

As a matter of social class Ku Klux Klan would have been regarded as white trash.

A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.

You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell.

Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.