The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay

Use the smallest word that does the job.

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.

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.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

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.