Fascism is more of a natural state than democracy. To assume blithely that we can export democracy into any country we choose can serve paradoxically….

When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being tha….

To be married to a good woman is to live with tender surprise..

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire, right through ….

There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a w….

What were the phenomena of the world today? If I knew little else, I knew the answer - war, and the preparations for new war..

Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it..

The greater the power of any subjective state, the more total is a Romantic's assumption that everyone understands exactly what he is about to do, th….

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent..

The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian..

What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?.

We have an absolute right in a democracy to argue about a war..

There are these two kinds of patriotism. There's blind patriotism, unflagging patriotism. And then there's the patriotism that says I live in a democ….

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos..

In such places as Greenwich Village, a menage-a-trois was completed- the bohemian and the juvenile delinquent came face-to-face with the Negro, and t….

I really gave up being passionate about politics 10, 15, 20 years ago, because I think finally that there were forces in the country that are larger ….

Culture is worth a little risk..

Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you ….

Nearly everything in the scheme of things works to dull a first-rate talent. But the worst probably is cowardice..

Decade after decade, artists came to paint the light of Provincetown, and comparisons were made to the lagoons of Venice and the marshes of Holland, ….

Somerset Maugham ... wrote somewhere that "Nobody is any better than he ought to be."... I carried it along with me as a working philosophy, but I su….