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.

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

A sensational event was changing from the brown suit to the gray the contents of his pockets. He was earnest about these objects. They were of eternal importance, like baseball or the Republican Party.

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

Is it possible that nobody has ever known that there never has been a completely civilized man, and won't be for another thousand years?

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead.

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