In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.