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

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

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

It is, I think, an error to believe that there is any need of religion to make life seem worth living.

Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

People read fiction for emotion-not information