PandemicSoul Quotelog

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

Expect people to be who they are, not who you want them to be.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

“The Silver Poppy”

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.