"Never write about a place until you're..." - Quote by Ernest Hemingway

“You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?”

“They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is.”

“Wars are caused by undefended wealth.”

“I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.”

“I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.”

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.”

“Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would trulier express our central and wide-related nature, instead of this old chronology of selfishness and pride to which we have too long lent our eyes. Already that day exists for us, shines in on us at unawares, but the path of science and of letters is not the way into nature. The idiot, the Indian, the child, and unschooled farmer's boy, stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector or the antiquary.”

“Behind every adversity - is an opportunity!”

“Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny.”