All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the nois…

War is no longer made by simply analysed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the…

Personal columnists ... are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.