Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.