You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

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

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

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

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.