A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.

The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to Advertising copy.

Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

The thrust of ambition is, and always has been, great, but among the bright-eyed it had once a more adventurous and individualistic air, a much more bracing rivalry.

One must never judge the writer by the man; but one may fairly judge the man by the writer.