“A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.”

“History – An account mostly false, of events unimportant, which are brought about by rulers mostly knaves, and soldiers mostly fools.”

“Visionaries of uncomfortable truths are mostly dismissed as fools.”

“They are all damned fools to bother their heads about Parliament at all, for this is our country.”

“Poetry cannot report the event, it must be the event, lived through in a form that can speak about itself while remaining wholly itself.”

“I was worth about over a million dollars when I was twenty-three and over ten million dollars when I was twenty-four, and over a hundred million dollars when I was twenty-five and it wasn't that important because I never did it for the money.”

“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”

“It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son—and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him.”

“We are a nation of twenty million bathrooms, with a humanist in every tub.”

“Reported in Truman Speaks (1960), p. 59.”