"Youth, though it may lack knowledge, is..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.”

“The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly veryfriendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.”

“Some time ago a publisher told me that there are four kinds of books that seldom, if ever, lose money in the United States--first,murder stories; secondly, novels in which the heroine is forcibly overcome by the hero; thirdly, volumes on spiritualism, occultism and other such claptrap, and fourthly, books on Lincoln.”

“A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”

“Who stops learning may be old.”

“If you want to honor me, give some young boy or girl who's coming along trying to create arts and write and compose and sing and act and paint and dance and make something out of the beauties of the Negro race-give that child some help.”

“It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.”

“Whoever possesses abundant joy must be a good man: but he is probably not the cleverest man, although he achieves exactly what it is that the cleverest man strives with all his cleverness to achieve.”

“I'm as thick as a plank.”