Howard Fast Quotes.
Since I believe that a person’s philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.
A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.
The only thing that infuriates me is that I have more unwritten stories in me than I can conceivably write in a lifetime.
The play is a marvelous form, but it demands less than a novel.
Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.
A man who will traduce those who stood with him in battle is not worth much.
I am a man of peace [so he told Mother, but it always appeared to me that he was the most belligerent man of peace I had ever encountered]
In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you’re cheating on your wife.
I was part of a generation that believed in socialism and finally found that belief corroded and destroyed. That is not renouncing Communism or socialism. It’s reaching a certain degree of enlightenment about what the Soviet Union practices.
Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don’t remember what happened yesterday.
And finally, be assured that Zen asks nothing even as it promises nothing. One can be a Protestant Zen Buddhist, a Catholic Zen Buddhist or a Jewish Zen Buddhist. Zen is a quiet thing. It listens.
Like most thoughtful people who watch what’s going on in Washington, venting is very necessary.
To be dogmatic about a cause you believe in at the age of 20 or 30 is not unusual. But to be dogmatic at age 55 or 60 shows a lack of any learning capacity.
Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.
Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever
I’m disenchanted with Communism and most other things. I’m cynical but not a cynic. I’m cynical about TV, Congress, and commercial peanut butter.
Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don’t grow up.
I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
I always thought that socialism here would be peculiarly American, with some reasonable, post-industrial evolution between working-class needs and market forces. It won’t be bloody like the Russian Revolution.
