By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was afraid that if I had no desk in my room my life would seem too haphazard.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

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.