How did you go bankrupt?" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

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.

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that it all happened to you and after which it all belongs to you.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Why must all of the operations in life be performed without an anesthetic?

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.