The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.

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

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn't catch the remark because I wasn't paying attention.

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.