Misery No Longer Loves Company. Nowadays It

Of All The People Expressing Their Mental Vacuity, None Has A Better Excuse For An Empty Head Than The Newspaperman: If He Pauses To Restock His Brain, He Invites Onrushing Deadlines To Trample Him Flat. Broadcasting The Contents Of Empty Minds Is What Most Of Us Do Most Of The Time, And Nobody More Relentlessly Than I.

Etiquette Is The Grease That Makes It Possible For All Of Us To Rub Together Without Unnecessary Overheating.

I've Had An Unhappy Life, Thank God.

Urban People, Of Course, Are Terribly Scared Nowadays. They May Yearn For Society, But It Is Risky To Go Around Talking To Strangers, For A Lot Of Reasons, One Being That People Are So Accustomed Not To Have Many Human Contacts That They Are Afraid They May Find Out They Really Prefer Life That Way.

A Railroad Station? That Was Sort Of A Primitive Airport, Only You Didn't Have To Take A Cab 20 Miles Out Of Town To Reach It.