Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.

We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny. . . . The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, it is the spectacle of the Americans beginning to accept the device of loyalty oaths and witch hunts, beginning to call anybody they don't like a Communist.

"Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?" "Yes. A drink."