The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.

The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.