Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had a share in holiness.

PROCTOR--he knows it is insane: No, it is not the same! What others say and what i sign to is not the same!

How to live had started out as an analytical problem of how to place himself so as to intercept the flow of money in the society.

Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own attitudes have to be tested in it. The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing himself, always.

The arts can do more to sustain the peace than all the wars, the armaments, and the threats and warnings of politicians.