On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.