The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport."

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

People read fiction for emotion-not information

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

It isn't what you earn but how spend it that fixes your class.