There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.

French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Never confuse motions with action.

It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.

The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it.

The only decent bone in her body was mine.