PandemicSoul Quotelog

Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

Walking isn’t a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

Everywhere I go I’m asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

“The Silver Poppy”

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

I am a deeply superficial person.

Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word ’safe’ that I wasn’t previously aware of.

I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.