Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit over the entrees, the hors d'oeuvres, and the things a la though you know that Roast Beef, Medium, is safe and sane, and sure.

The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.

A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.