In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

You're terrific as far as I am concerned.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

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.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.