Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.

As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.

A world ends when its metaphor has died.

A self-advertising writer is always a self-extinguished writer.

A man who lives, not by what he loves but what he hates, is a sick man.

A real writer learns from earlier writers the way a boy learns from an apple orchard -- by stealing what he has a taste for, and can carry off