“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
“Civilization is a race between education and catastrophe.”
“We are living in 1902, and the future is not what it used to be.”
“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's.”
“Advertising is legalized lying.”
“Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.”
“Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write.”
“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”
“If we don't end war, war will end us.”
“Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.”
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.”
“I would feel more optimistic about a bright future if I lived in a country I could be proud of — but I love it just the same.”
“The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.”
“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.”
“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.”
“Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.”
“Prejudice is a great time saver. It enables you to form opinions without having to get the facts.”
“Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”