any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

I am trying for nothing so hard in my own personal life as how not to be respectable when married.

... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world

We can always find noble reasons for what we want to do.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.

We all marry strangers. All men are strangers to all women.

... no one knows anything about a strike until he has seen it break down into its component parts of human beings.

I don't write so that people will understand me, I write because I know they don't. And, I can't help feeling like I should at least give them the illusion that they do.

Smiles are such a simple thing to give but means so much to many.

Flirtation attention without intention.

There should be a word for a laugh that ends as soon as it starts. A laugh that's more a syllable of surprise and acknowledgment than it is anything else.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

As for health, consider yourself well.

Be prepared to organize nonviolent workshops - a teach-in around what is happening in America today. Organize your teachers and schoolmates, and be prepared to engage in some action.

We don't have enough words for photography. Can you imagine writers having only one word for writing?

When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out.