IV. The time required for an object to fall twenty stories is greater than or equal to the time it takes for whoever knocked it off the ledge to spiral down twenty flights to attempt to capture it unbroken. Such an object is inevitably price

Satire is tragedy plus time.

Men will fuck mud.

The [Ford Foundation] is a large body of money completely surrounded by people who want some.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Lay off the muses, it's a very tough dollar.

With her body, woman is more sincere than man; but with her mind she lies. And when she lies, she does not believe herself.

Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't understand his own meaning.

In the highest society, as well as in the lowest, woman is merely an instrument of pleasure.

I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

There seems no plan because it is all plan.

Many enraged psychiatrists are inciting a weary butcher. The butcher is weary and tired because he has cut meat and steak and lamb for hours and weeks. He does not desire to chant about anything with raving psychiatrists, but he sings about his gin

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

The cart has no place where a fifth wheel could be used.

"Necessity is the mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of futile dodges" is much nearer the truth.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

I am just a nice, clean-cut Mongolian boy.

For courage mounteth with occasion.

If God wanted us to have a President, He would have sent us a candidate.

One good turn asketh another.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it's still a foolish thing.