If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize, because he is removing all the elements of contest and of struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left element, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace ... By suppressing Jews ... he was ending struggle in Germany.

In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes American what it is.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.