I love America, but I don't like it.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

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

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?