I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?

For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.

Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a "good" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters.

Real journalism is publishing something that somebody else does not want published - the rest is just public relations.