Intellectually I Know That America Is No

It Has Not Yet Been Recorded That Any Human Being Has Gained A Very Large Or Permanent Contentment From Meditation Upon The Fact That He Is Better Off Than Others.

The Most Important Part Of Living Is Not The Living But The Pondering Upon It.

Every Compulsion Is Put Upon Writers To Become Safe, Polite, Obedient, And Sterile. In Protest, I Declined Election To The National Institute Of Arts And Letters Some Years Ago, And Now I Must Decline The Pulitzer Prize.

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

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