Writers always sound insufferably smug when they sit back and assert that their job is only to ask questions and not to answer them. But, in good part, it is true. And once you become committed to one particular answer, your freedom to ask new questions is seriously impaired.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

The future of American film lies on television.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

In oratory the will must predominate.

An inability to handle language is not the same thing as stupidity.