Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away.

Love is the magician that pulls him out of his own hat.

The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.

Prejudice is a raft onto which the shipwrecked mind clambers and paddles to safety.

Chicago is a sort of journalistic Yellowstone Park, offering haven to a last herd of fantastic bravos.

A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him.

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.

I'll tell you a secret. We live in a mad and inspiring world.

Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

If the shoe fits, you must wear it.

But you've got to be tough when consumed by desire, cause it's not enough just to stand outside the fire.

The three great American vices seem to be efficiency, punctuality, and the desire for achievement and success. They are the things that make the Americans so unhappy and so nervous.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should

Know thyself. [Lat., Ne quis nimis. (From the Greek)]

Don’t you bully me with your politeness!