The pain of loss, moreover, however agonizing, however haunting in memory, quiets imperceptibly into acceptance as the currents of active living and of fresh emotions flow over it.

It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel.

[On newspapers:] A first draft of history.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.