Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

I cannot think that espionage can be recommended as a technique for building an impressive civilization. It's a lout's game.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

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

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.