Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

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.

Hunger is good discipline.

There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.