If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace -- a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.

The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of people.