A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

Salutations; it's just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.