There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

People read fiction for emotion-not information

Upon this theology he rarely pondered. The kernel of his practical religion was that it was respectable, and beneficial to one's business, to be seen going to services; that the church kept the Worst Elements from being still worse; and that the pastor's sermons, however dull they might seem at the time of taking, yet had a voodooistic power which 'did a fellow good-- kept him in touch with Higher Things.

In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shabby bums living in attics and feeding on booze and spaghetti, but in America the successful writer or picture-painter is indistinguishable from any other decent businessman.

Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

You have more people that love you than you know.