The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.