Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.