“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”

“I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.”

“A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.”

“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.”

“To me [Edgar Allan Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.”

“I've experienced a great deal of pain and suffering in my life ...... most of which has never happened.”

“My financial views are of the most decided character, but they are not likely, perhaps, to increase my popularity with the advocates of inflation. I do not insist upon the special supremacy of rag money or hard money. The great fundamental principle of my life is to take any kind I can get.”