The true religion of America has always been America.

What's the use of being a writer if you can't irritate a great many people?

One of the reasons the English got through all their falls and the loss of their empire, all their disasters, their strikes, their difficulties, their wars through the years was they had Shakespeare to fall back on. And they speak well in England.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

You never do find out what makes you tick, and after a while it's unimportant.

I think the internet is the greatest waste of time since masturbation was discovered.