When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell.

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.