Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.

You’re my religion. You’re all I’ve got.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it.

A big lie is more plausible than truth.