A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief.
– John Dos Passos
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
– John Dos Passos
People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.
– John Dos Passos
We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work.
– John Dos Passos
If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.