"The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one."

"Dinner theater is anti-culture."

"It is a common delusion that you can make things better by talking about them."

"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."

"Ignorance is king, many would not prosper by its abdication."

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers."

"The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country."

"'One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."

"A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life."

"They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely--your mistakes."

"Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise."

"Don't play dumb. You're not as good at it as I am."