To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.