America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.

The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

The evening papers print what they do and get away with it because by afternoon the human mind is ruined anyhow.

Continually one faces the horrible matter of making decisions. The solution is, as far as possible, to avoid conscious rational decisions and choices; simply to do what you find yourself doing; to float in the great current of life with as little friction as possible; to allow things to settle themselves, as indeed they do with the most infallible certainty.

Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.

Being in a hurry seems so fiercely important when you yourself are the hurrier and so comically ludicrous when it is someone else.