Ask yourself, if there was to be no blame, and if there was to be no praise, who would I be then?

Most men when they make up their faces, the makeup stands forward, and their faces are behind.

Flowers are words even a baby can understand.

If you live in America, you don't have to work. You can just drift along in the smiling and nodding racket.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

In New York, I find people so courteous and so generous. Free drinks in bars. Free taxi rides.

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known.