The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. People are very inclined to set moral standards for others.