A society struggles to fulfill its best instincts, even as an individual does, and generally makes just as hard going of it. The fight against prejudice is an inevitable process. Man has been warring against his own lower nature ever since he found out he had one, and the battle against intolerance is part of the same old struggle between good and evil that has preoccupied us ever since we gave up swinging from trees.

Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.

The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.

There are ... other business societies - England, Holland, Belgium and France, for instance. But ours [the United States] is the only culture now extant in which business so completely dominates the national scene that sports, crime, sex, death, philanthropy and Easter Sunday are money-making propositions.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.

Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.