One newspaper a day ought to be enough for anyone who still prefers to retain a little mental balance.

The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.

The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

The tantrums of cloth-headed celluloid idols are deemed fit for grown-up conversation, while silence settles over such a truly important matter as food.

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

We are all citizens of history.