H. L. Mencken

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.