An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.

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

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.

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

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.