The Trouble With This Country Is That

When Fascism Comes To The United States It Will Be Wrapped In The American Flag And Will Claim The Name Of 100-percent Americanism

Except For Half A Dozen In Each Town The Citizens Are Proud Of That Achievement Of Ignorance Which Is So Easy To Come By. To Be 'intellectual' Or 'artistic' Or, In Their Own Word, To Be 'highbrow,' Is To Be Priggish And Of Dubious Virtue.

Don't Be A Writer. Writing Is An Escape From Something. You Be A Scientist.

I Must Say I'm Not Very Fond Of Oratory That's So Full Of Energy It Hasn't Any Room For Facts.

Writers Have A Rare Power Not Given To Anyone Else: We Can Bore People Long After We Are Dead.