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.

It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

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.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

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