“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”

“A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”

“You can always tell a real friend: when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.”

“We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired.”

“If we feel inwardly strong, we will have no need or desire to speak ill of others.”

“(Parentheses speakMore than we dare say out loudWhy, oh, why is that?)”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”