To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.

When fascism comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and will claim the name of 100-percent Americanism

She did her work with the thoroughness of a mind which reveres details and never quite understands them.

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Being a man given to oratory and high principles, he enjoyed the sound of his own vocabulary and the warmth of his own virtue.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Sleep with me sleep with my dogs-

When facism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

There is no greater compliment to the Jews than the fact that the degree of their unpopularity is always the scientific measure of the cruelty and silliness of the regime under which they live.

The historian records, but the novelist creates.

People hate what they fear.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

The most blatant examples are increased power and frequency in hurricanes and the increased depth and frequency of heat waves.

If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

Life is so much wiser and kinder than your mind imagines. Trust & Be Still.

Don't ever give up on something or someone that you can't go a full day without thinking about.