The New York Times is the worst in that hardly anybody can write English over there. Most of it reads like slight translations from the German.

Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

He's a full-fledged housewife from Kansas with all the prejudices.

Heaven's sakes, there's only one party which I call the Property Party. It's got two wings. One is called the "Republican" and one is called "Democratic." It is the same party so it makes no difference whether a Democrat's elected or a Republican's elected. The ownership remains the same.

What matters finally is not the world's judgment of oneself but one's own judgment of the world.... Any writer who lacks this final arrogance will not survive very long in America.

At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.