“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”

“I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.”

“From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.”

“You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”

“It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition.”