If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.

Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors; they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.

The notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.

If there was ever a dissenter from the national optimismit was surely Edgar Allan Poe--without question the bravest and mostoriginal, if perhaps also the least orderly and judicious, of all the critics that we have produced.