There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

Knotty theological questions are the least worrying of problems to me. Why? Because they will be resolved in the hereafter, and meanwhile they can be safely shelved.

Man who betrayed you once would betray you twice.

She wanted to say 'I love you like a thunderstorm, like a lion, like a helpless rage'.

Hard work should be rewarded by good food.

Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?