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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

There is no sin except stupidity.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you’ll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

California is a tragic country – like Palestine, like every Promised Land.

Winning the Pulitzer is not that big a deal. I have seen hundreds of plays that have won the prize and you couldn’t sit half way through it. The Pulitzer is a common prize that means very little.

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all.

There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.