But nothing seems to do any good.

The best way to find out if you have any friends is to go broke. The ones that hang on longest are your friends. I don't mean the ones that hang on forever. There aren't any of those.

It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

If you believe in an idea, you don't own you, it owns you.

An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.