It might be the doing of Satan, in whom Aaron anxiously believed with all of his being except, perhaps, his mind.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

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

His name was George F. Babbitt, and . . . he was nimble in the calling of selling houses for more than people could afford to pay.

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.

In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.