There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Three keys to success: read, read, read.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world.

The goal of socialism is communism.

When it comes to hang the capitalists they will compete with each other to sell us the rope at a lower price.

You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice.

People always have been and they always will be stupid victims of deceit and self-deception in politics.

Fascism is capitalism in decay.

We can and must write in a language which sows among the masses hate, revulsion, and scorn toward those who disagree with us.

The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

Learning is never done without errors and defeat.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

I was ripped from my body, I was less than spirit, less than the meanest ghost . . . but still, I was alive.

We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities but its own talents.

Oh, Teddy, darling, thank you, thank you, for restoring my cynicism. I was too young to lose it.

We can speak very much to the purpose and yet in such a way that the whole world cries out in contradiction: namely, when we are not speaking to the whole world.

Abstinence is approved of God.

The reality is I'm not a 'get knocked down and come back harder' kind of guy.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.