We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened.