It is natural anywhere that people like their own kind, but it is not necessarily natural that their fondness for their own kind should lead them to the subjection of whole groups of other people not like them.

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

Iowans know themselves and what they are doing. They are doing well.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

It is good to know our universe. What is new is only new to us.