Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

Men are restless, adventurous. Women are conservative - despite what current ideology says.

we have not yet developed a system of education that is not a system of indoctrination.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors.

America can be a very hysterical country intellectually and very puritanical, too. You probably have fun in private, but to the rest of the world you seem to hate fun - to be big on agendas and short on spontaneity. The image you present is one of appalling conformity. The thought police is what you are ruled by.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.