The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it.

The function of the novelist . . . is to comment upon life as he sees it.

The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

I never truckled; I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. By God, I told them the truth.