Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

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

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

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.

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

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

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.