Friends have asked how I came to engender this American antagonism. My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them. Secondly, I was opposed to the Committee on Un-American Activities - a dishonest phrase to begin with, elastic enough to wrap around the throat and strangle the voice of any American citizen whose honest opinion is a minority of one.

In the light of our egos, we are all dethroned monarchs

Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

Greed has poisoned men's souls.

Dictators free themselves by enslaving others. They work not for your benefit, but their own.