Cure the evils of Democracy by the evils of Fascism! Funny therapeutics! I've heard of their curing syphilis by giving the patient malaria, but I've never heard of their curing malaria by giving the patient syphilis.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

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

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.

Damn 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.

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

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