America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.

To the goggling unbeliever Texans say, as people always say about their mangier dishes, 'But it's just like chicken, only tenderer.' Rattlesnake is, in fact, just like chicken - only tougher.

Authors are now marketed like promising movie starlets and must rattle around the nation's television stations to try to assert a salable identity different from that of the other starlets.

People in America, when listening to radio, like to lean forward. People in Britain like to lean back.

New York is the biggest collection of villages in the world.

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

America is a country in which I see the most persistant idealism and the blandest of cynicism and the race is on between its vitality and its decadence.