The Rosenberg case had been orchestrated to an anti-Communist frenzy that matched the exuberant hysteria of the Nazi horror. Howard Fast Read Quote
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. Howard Fast Read Quote
A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can’t do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion. Howard Fast Read Quote
In L.A., you work like hell because there is nothing else to do, unless you’re cheating on your wife. Howard Fast Read Quote
After the Spanish Civil War against Franco, a group of us got together: a group of well-to-do people who were sympathetic to the lost cause of a Republican state. We bought a convent in Toulouse and converted it into a hospital run by the Unitarians. It took care of the Spanish refugees who fled to Toulouse. Howard Fast Read Quote
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. Howard Fast Read Quote
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. Howard Fast Read Quote
Americans have no sense of history. And not much memory. They don’t remember what happened yesterday. Howard Fast Read Quote
