The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must.

He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic.

Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

I am always incorrigibly interested in the behaviour of the 'human animal', and look forward to perusing divers effusions of your lively pen.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

Your attitude measures up to the two requirements of love. You want to go to bed with her and can't, and you don't know her very well. Ignorance of the other person topped up with deprivation, Jim. You fit the formula all right, and what's more you want to go on fitting it.