Homely truth is unpalatable.
The source of all humor is not laughter, but sorrow.
Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.
Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.