I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved, which a cow enjoys on giving milk. - H. L. Mencken

No woman is really humble; she is merely politic. No woman, with a free choice before her, chooses self-immolation; the most she genuinely desires in that direction is a spectacular martyrdom. No woman delights in poverty. No woman yields when she can prevail. No woman is honestly meek.

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.