There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.

Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

The only way that a government can provide for jobs for all citizens is by deciding what every man should do.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

Such is the art of writing as Dreiser understands it and practices it--an endless piling up of minutiae, an almost ferocious tracking down of ions, electrons and molecules, an unshakable determination to tell it all. One is amazed by the mole-like diligence of the man, and no less by his exasperating disregard for the ease of his readers.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill.