Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work..

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket..

It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, thou….

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness.

The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority..

When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do not believe in immortalit….

Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be una….

Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war upon holiness, toward the e….

You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing..

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do..

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake ….

Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her..

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an obscure but powerful impulse to active funct….

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touc….

On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense..

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil..

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis..

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband..

The whole drift of our law is toward the absolute prohibition of all ideas that diverge in the slightest form from the accepted platitudes, and behin….

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse..

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly..