Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

There are two things nobody should ever have to watch being made, sausage and laws.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.