I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is.

But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit.

As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler.

I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.