"Everything (he kept saying) is something it isn't. And everybody is always somewhere else."

"Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but …"

"The future, wave or no wave, seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done."

"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."

"We received a letter from the Writers' War Board the other day asking for a statement on "The Meaning of Democracy." …"

"All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets …"

"Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams — Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, they infect the ro…"

"Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma."

"There is a decivilizing bug somewhere at work; unconsciously persons of stern worth, by not resenting and resisting t…"

"Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that…"