Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. |
When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. |
What is love? It is the morning and the evening star. |
When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read. |
Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. |
People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.' |
He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all. |
The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century. |
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment. |
Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead. |
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age. Topics: Age |
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. |
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. |
There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble. |
Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country. |