When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000 words in English but all the same I shall die an inarticulate man, for my best ideas beset me in a language I know only vaguely and speak only as a child.


The Days of H.L. Mencken: Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days (ed. Marboro Books, 1990)

H. L. Mencken Quotes

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000...

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000...

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000...

When I think of anything properly describable as a beautiful idea, it is always in the form of music. I have written and printed probably 10,000,000...