Sinclair Lewis

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it!

Oh, quit it! You're the possessor of a beautiful wife, a beautiful gas-stove, and you were going to forget all this race-hysteria.

I came trusting them. They beat me with rods of dullness. They don't know, they don't understand how agonizing their complacent dullness is. Like ants and August sun on a wound." - Carol Kennicott

The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.

Well, if that__ what you call being at peace, for heaven__ sake just warn me before you go to war, will you?

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

There__ no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who__l help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, "My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.

When Buzz gets in, he won't be having any parade of wounded soldiers. That'll be bad Fascist psychology. All those poor devils he'll hide away in institutions, and just bring out the lively young human slaughter cattle in uniforms.

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.

What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.

Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known trouble.

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.

People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'