Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.

Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial in praise of loyalty testing and thought control. If a man is in health, he doesn't need to take anybody else's temperature to know where he is going.

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.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn't know where else to go.

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.