I prefer milk because I am a Prohibitionist, but I do not go to it for inspiration.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.