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.

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

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.

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

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.

Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.

Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.