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.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

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.

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

People read fiction for emotion-not information

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

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.