He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

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

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

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

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.