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.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

The essayist . . . can pull on any sort of shirt, be any sort of person, according to his mood or his subject matter - philosopher, scold, jester, raconteur, confidant, pundit, devil's advocate, enthusiast.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

Thus I, gone forth, as spiders do, In spider’s web a truth discerning, Attach one silken strand to you For my returning.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.