Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.

Let’s not talk about how I am. It’s a subject I know too much about to want to think about anymore.

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

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

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

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.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.