One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

To hell with them. Nothing hurts if you don't let it.

We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.