The rich philistinism emanating from advertisements is due not to their exaggerating (or inventing) the glory of this or that serviceable article but to suggesting that the acme of human happiness is purchasable and that its purchase somehow ennobles the purchaser.

My answer to your question'Does the writer have a social responsibility?' is NO.You owe me ten cents, sir.

The square root of I is I.

All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter.

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.