"'Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent."

"What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?"

"In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap."

"Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets."

"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."

"THE DISAPPOINTED MAN SPEAKS.--I sought great human beings, I never found anything but the APES of their ideal."

"No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have - and I think he is a dirty little beast."

"It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important."

"And the only life which looks down upon the life of political ambition is that of true philosophy. Do you know of any other?"