I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever blowing through one's head.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.