Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.

The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever.

There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to write clearly, no key that unlocks the door, no inflexible rules by which the young writer may steer his course. He will often find himself steering by stars that are disturbingly in motion.

When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

Advice to young writers wo want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.