You know — we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. "'My God, my God — ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade.

What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike. The oligarchs were furious because the working class was not supposed to have any power at all.

In this world, you get what you pay for.

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

[People] want to feel superior, so they imagine we're Bible thumpers and uneducated and all that.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.