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

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.