Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to r…

If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing …

For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.