What other culture could have produced someone like Hemmingway and not seen the joke?

U.S. certainly are not warlike. We don't want that. We want to make money, which I always thought was one of the most admirable things about Americans.

I am glad my life is coming to an end. To think that it might last another five hundred years, now that would be terrible, in my case.

I assume that the point of American democracy is you can express any point of view you want.

Do nothing that is not natural - and ritual is natural - and all will be for the best.

You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and the horrible public educational system we have for the average person. It's just grotesque.

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.