Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

The solution to our water problems is more rain.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.