The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.

Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow

Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently make in their daily simple needs of communication; and what part of a novel is not composed of these noises consists of a prose which is no more alive than that of a competent newspaper writer or government official. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel-reader is not prepared to give.