Occupation: Editor Birth: February 27, 1910 Death: September 28, 1993
The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own..
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus..
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked..
Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful..
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate..
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist..
Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up..
"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots o….
People rarely do what they don't want to..
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums..
The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you..
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability.
Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister..
Are you pro- or anti-macassar?.
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature..
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged..
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe..
What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial….
I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, bu….
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apolloni….
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection..