I've never shown anybody a draft of anything.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

I prize the Depression, for instance, because I learned the value of things in the Depression that a way people who don't have to worry about such things never learned to prize it really, I believe.

People make a grievous error thinking that a list of facts is the truth. Facts are just the bare bones out of which truth is made.

Of all the passions of mankind, the love of novelty most rules the mind. In search of this, from realm to realm we roam. Our fleets come loaded with every folly home.

I don't want anything to do with anything mechanical between me and the paper, including a typewriter, and I don't even want a fountain pen between me and the paper.

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.