He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time.

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.

Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.

I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.