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.

America is now liberty-conscious. In a single generation it has progressed from being toothbrush-conscious, to being air-minded, to being liberty-conscious.

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.

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!