Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.

A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

We are befouling and destroying our own home, we are committing a slow but accelerating race suicide and life murder - planetary biocide. Now there is a mighty theme for a mighty book but a challenge to which no modern novelist or poet has yet responded. Where is our Melville, our Milton, our Thomas Mann when we need him most?

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

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.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.