To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

Dialogue should convey a sense of spontaneity but eliminate the repetitiveness of real talk.

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This hour is so dreadful to some people that they hurry indoors and turn on the lights.