Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

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

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.

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

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

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.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.