I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will all my heart. To me an opera is the very climax & cap-stone of the absurd, the fantastic the unjustifiable. I hate the very name of opera - partly because of the nights of suffering I have endured in its presence, & partly because I want to love it and can't.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.