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.

We are always the same age inside.

Nature is not natural and that is natural enough.

Animals in different countries have different expressions just as the people in different countries differ in expression.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.