We're the most captive nation of slaves that ever came along. The moral timidity of the average American is quite noticeable. Everybody's afraid to be thought in any way different from everyone else.

I do not much care for nature, and believe that flowers belong in vases rather than loose and untidy on the ground.

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.

Commercialism is doing well that which should not be done at all.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

By and large, serious fiction was the work of victims who portrayed victims for an audience of victims who, it was oddly assumed, would want to see their lives realistically portrayed.

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever.