If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.
Sinclair LewisDamn 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.
Sinclair LewisParis is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.
Sinclair LewisWriters have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
Sinclair Lewis