We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value -- a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity.

I do not know much about gods;but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable . . .

The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes.

Not fare well, / But fare forward, voyagers.

Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.

I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival