No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
Property is organized robbery.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!