All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from promotion, entertainment from merchandising. The advertiser has assumed the role of originator, and the performer has gradually been eased into the role of peddler.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis.... I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis.

In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.