A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

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.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

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