Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.