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 time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.