Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.