You are trying to do a more difficult thing than record folk songs; you are trying to record life.

The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.

The New Deal is plainly an attempt to achieve a working socialism and avert a social collapse in America; it is extraordinarily parallel to the successive 'policies' and 'Plans' of the Russian experiment. Americans shirk the word 'socialism', but what else can one call it?

Good books are the warehouses of ideas.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

For after the Battle comes quiet.

The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.