The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them with words. Temperamentally we are ready to die for certain principles (or, in the case of overripe adults, send youngsters to die), but we show little inclination to advertise the reasons for dying.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.