Oh, I never look under the hood.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the reader, and if he's going to the trouble of reading what I've written -- I'm a slow reader myself and I guess most people are -- why, the least I can do is make it as easy as possible for him to find out what I'm trying to say, trying to get at. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

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.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.