there is no truly honest autobiography.

From class consciousness to class hatred was but a step.

Herbert used to say that he was as tight as the paper on the wall.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

there is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt. A book may fail, but who is there to know it? It dies and is buried, and is decently interred on the bookseller's shelf; but the play dies to laughter, to scorn and disdain.

there comes a time when ambition ceases to burn, or romance to stir, and the highest cry of the human heart is for peace.