if freedom and human dignity are to be defended, they must be defended honestly: against all tyrants and all corrupters.”

Mrs. Boyd had recently told him of Wolfe’s being beaten almost to death at Munich’s Oktoberfest.

if you give the right impressions at the start, the knowledge of the reader will grow by gradual accretion as the story goes along. You try to tell far too much.

He urged Anaïs Nin to publish her diaries.

when even great men like Lenin try to make over a whole society suddenly the end is almost sure to be bad, and that the right end, the natural one, will come from the efforts of innumerable people trying to do right.

Wolfe now moved into a new apartment at 865 First Avenue, just two blocks toward the East River from the Perkinses’ house.

Mark Twain’s sentiment in “The Two Testaments”—that “when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free”—seemed

Then he and Scribner discussed a limited edition of William Butler Yeats’s works.

what the strongest signs for a book editor would be. She said Virgo, the sign of the critic,