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

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

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

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.