The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.
Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.
There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
In the German concentration camps, Jews wore yellow stars while homosexuals wore pink lambdas.
Until the rise of American advertising, it never occurred to anyone anywhere in the world that the teenager was a captive in a hostile world of adults.
It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
It's always best to stay out of other people's divorces. And their civil wars.
By 1939, the Depression was back. Unemployment was huge. Roosevelt didn't have any quick fix. Remember, the New Deal, Works Progress Administration, and Civilian Conservation Corps - all that happened years before. Roosevelt was riding a storm.
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king's death or upon the identity of his successor.
What I am is something unbearable for the world of journalism and the world of cliches. I'm a realist.
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.
I can understand companionship.
What the Kinseyites and I had in common so long ago was the knowledge that homosexual and heterosexual behavior are natural to all mammals, and that what differs from individual to individual is the balance between these two complementary but not necessarily conflicted drives.
Most children tell themselves stories in which they figure as powerful figures, enjoying the pleasures not only of the adult world as they conceive it but of a world of wonders unlike dull reality.