When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

Every great change is simple.

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Wars are made to make debt.