Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
Tag: H. L. Mencken
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.