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

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.

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

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.

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.