In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

She was snatched back from a dream of far countries, and found herself on Main Street.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

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."

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

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.

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.