I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn.

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs

A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.