I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.

I don't believe the writer should know too much where he's going. If he does, he runs into old man blueprint—old man propaganda.

American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

Reason is 6/7 of treason.

Surely no other American institution is so bound around and tightened up by rules, strictures, adages, and superstitions as the Broadway theatre.

A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.