Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?

How embarrassing it is to be human.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Our classes were relatively small. Those small classes can feel like family. After a class in French or chemistry or whatever, we'd be talking in the halls about what we just learned.