About myself - no. I'm unimportant, an observer, a wandering animal.

The great white city of brotherhood, Washington.

It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

A self-made man is one who believes in luck and sends his son to Oxford.

Radicalism is the opium of the middle class.

It was easy to see how upsetting it would be if women began to love freely where love came to them. An abyss would open in the principal shopping street of every town.

I do not want to go to heaven; I want my children, forever children, and other children, stalwart adults, and a good happy wife, that is all I ask, but not paradise; earth is good enough for me: it is because I believe earth is heaven, Naden, that I can overcome all my troubles and face down my enemies.