People Read Fiction For Emotion-not Information

When You Think That Most Of Us Are Doomed By Divine Grace To Roast In Hell, To Say Nothing Of Mortgages And Hail And Bad Crops And Extravagant Womenfolks, 'tain't Any Laughing Matter!

Damn The Great Executives, The Men Of Measured Merriment, Damn The Men With Careful Smiles, Damn The Men That Run The Shops, Oh, Damn Their Measured Merriment.

Our American Professors Like Their Literature Clear And Cold And Pure And Very Dead.

Most Troubles Are Unnecessary. We Have Nature Beaten; We Can Make Her Grow Wheat; We Can Keep Warm When She Sends Blizzards. So We Raise The Devil Just For Pleasure--wars, Politics, Race-hatreds, Labor-disputes.

Writers Have A Rare Power Not Given To Anyone Else: We Can Bore People Long After We Are Dead.