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And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever.

I mean, where I come from, 'communism' is not a terrible word.

I am terrible with people's names.

Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

My books were attacked constantly by the Communist Party for not hewing to the Party line. I have never hewed to a Party line of any kind.

As is well known, 'McCarthyism' was an alleged focus of political evil in the 1950s: Accusations of Communist taint, without factual basis; bogus lists of supposed Communists who never existed; failure in the end to produce even one provable Communist or Soviet agent, despite his myriad charges of subversion.

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you.

I consider the philosophy of the Communist Party as not applicable to our American way of life.

It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.