Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

The real Antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

I hang onto my prejudices, they are the testicles of my mind.

I can never forget that one of the most gifted, best educated nations in the world, of its own free will, surrendered its fate into the hands of a maniac.

The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person.

We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the remarkable fact that many inventions had their birth as toys.

Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.

When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed.

At the bottom of every dilemma, he says, is fear, and the brain always prefers the bird in the hand to venturing into the bush, even if you are clutching a scrawny black crow.

Real poetry is art at its purest sense. It is never a commodity, but a breath of eternity.

She had a sense of herself being brain dead: running on tubes and machines.

She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing.

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

Justice from Love, and Love from Justice

My father was in the First World War.

I think I was always a drama queen. I really, really, really loved playing pretend.

Lay me down like a stone oh God, and raise me up like a new bread".

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.