Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

One of the penalties of being a human being is other human beings.

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so much faster, that we are thinking faster, too.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.