Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

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

I love America, but I don't like it.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth.

A man takes a drink, the drink takes another, and the drink takes the man.

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."

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.