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.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

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

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

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?

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