Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.

...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

The Chicago City News Bureau was a tripwire for all the newspapers in town when I was there, and there were five papers, I think. We were out all the time around the clock and every time we came across a really juicy murder or scandal or whatever, they'd send the big time reporters and photographers, otherwise they'd run our stories. So that's what I was doing, and I was going to university at the same time.

People should practice an art in order to make their souls grow and not to make money or become famous. Paint a picture. Write.

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.