Fancy language, like poplin, too often conceals an eczema.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it.