Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

The American vice is explanation.

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

Now the long-feared Asiatic colossus takes its turn as world leader, and we--the white race--have become the yellow man's burden.Let us hope that he will treat us more kindly than we treated him.

Before the word gay had really been invented, was there's no such thing. Only a country, basically as mindless about these matters - based upon our peasant superstitions, religious superstitions - would they make categories. Everybody's everything.

I look into my own black heart.

There are certain truths so true that they are practically unbelievable.