Sinclair Lewis

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation

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

Our American professors like their literature clear and cold and pure and very dead

I can not understand why ministers presume to deliver sermons every week at appointed hours because it is humanly impossible for inspirations to come with clock-like regularity

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

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

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.