The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my party and raised my fears as much as your editorial, on Thanksgiving Day, suggesting that employees should be required to state their beliefs in order to hold their jobs. The idea is inconsistent with our constitutional theory and has been stubbornly opposed by watchful men since the early days of the Republic.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and intent.

Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get lost in your subject.

Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate"; the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous," unless you are sure you have that effect on others.