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

I love America, but I don't like it.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.

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

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

People read fiction for emotion-not information