Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.

But to make the intangible tangible, to pick the emotion out of the air and make it true for others, is both the blessing and the curse of the writer, for the thing between book covers is never as beautiful as the thing he imagined.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one.

no case of libel by a negro against a white would even reach a southern court.

Garlic, like perfume, must be used with discretion and on the proper occasions.

You kin tame a bear. You kin tame a wild-cat and you kin tame a panther. ... You kin tame arything, son, excusin' the human tongue.

No, I most certainly do not think advertising people are wonderful. I think they are horrible, and the worst menace to mankind, next to war; perhaps ahead of war. They stand for the material viewpoint, for the importance of possessions, of desire, of envy, of greed. And war comes from these things.