The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?

Fascism is a lie told by bullies.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.