"Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead." — Sinclair Lewis

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

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.

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