...the tourist Venice is Venice.

My occupational hazard is that I can't help plagiarizing from real life.

A good deal of education consists of unlearning-the breaking of bad habits as with a tennis serve.

most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.

It [Socialism] was a kind of political hockey played by big, gaunt, dyspeptic girls in pants.

Who are the advertising men kidding, besides the European tourist? Between the tired, sad, gentle faces of the subway riders and the grinning Holy Families of the Ad-Mass, there exists no possibility of even a wishful identification.

Congress-these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage.