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

My great fear is not that I'll run out of ideas. It's that I'll run out of time.

Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

As soon as you bring up money, I notice, conversation gets sociological, then political, then moral.

All equestrians, if they last long enough, learn that riding in whatever form is a lifelong sport and art, an endeavor that is both familiar and new every time you take the horse out of his stall or pasture.

The novel as a form is usually seen to be moral if its readers consider freedom, individuality, democracy, privacy, social connection, tolerance and hope to be morally good, but it is not considered moral if the highest values of a society are adherence to rules and traditional mores, the maintenance of hierarchical relationships, and absolute ideas of right and wrong. Any society based on the latter will find novels inherently immoral and subversive.

An urban novelist never minds a little decay.