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.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

Writers kid themselves-about themselves and other people. Take the talk about writing methods. Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type with your toes-it is just work.

What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!

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.

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

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.