Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
By the time a man gets to be presidential material he's been bought ten times over.
As societies grow decadent the language grows decadent too. Words are used to disguise not to illuminate action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically by definition be disqualified from ever doing so.
The more money an American accumulates the less interesting he becomes.
We must declare ourselves become known allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love but the emotion itself.
Fifty percent of people won't vote and fifty percent don't read newspapers. I hope it's the same fifty percent.
In America the race goes to the loud the solemn the hustler. If you think you're a great writer you must say that you are.
Apparently a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
