What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people able to be individualists. We're tired of always deferring hope till the next generation. We're tired of hearing politicians and priests and cautious reformers... coax us, 'Be calm! Be patient! Wait! We have the plans for a Utopia already made; just wiser than you.' For ten thousand years they've said that. We want our Utopia now — and we're going to try our hands at it.

A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

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.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service.

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