“Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.”
“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”
“Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.”
“The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, ''The trouble with this country is...''”
“Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”
“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.”
“Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.”
“There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.”
“In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.”