Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.
Sinclair LewisThat nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.
Sinclair LewisWhatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.
Sinclair LewisWhen fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism
Sinclair Lewis