It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

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

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.