An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write. - E. B. White

A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

Did it ever occur to you that there's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another?

Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.