Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.

War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

America is my country and Paris is my hometown.

To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.

Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the Reality and interested in telling about it.