Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from this.

you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.

I'm a natural novelist. I'm interested in the person and the group, and how they mesh. And one of the ways I don't want them to mesh is for the person to be subsumed into the group.

I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.

After a long day, folk rest at night. After a long summer, folk play games and sit about in the winter. After a long life folk sit about the fire and stay warm, for the chill of death is upon them, and even the thickest bearskin can't keep off the shivering.