Kids are not driving themselves to McDonalds. It's not about kids and their choices. It's about parents and their choices.

All the aftermath that so frequently follows in the wake of war still confront the nation, and we now, as ever before, must hold fast to the ancient landmarks and see to it that all of these plagues that threaten so mightily shall be rendered harmless.

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

The magnificence of mountains, the serenity of nature-nothing is safe from the idiot marks of man's passing.

There's one word that describes baseball - You never know.

Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.