Christopher MorleyThinkers

America is, by design, such that its nature to be a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive.

Belonging is sometimes necessary to achieving one's goals. Sometimes you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going.

A Book is not just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue, but a whole new life.

A Book is a thing which, when you sell one to a man, you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life; love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night.

A Bookstore is a business that does not just sell a man twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - it sells him a whole new life... love and friendship and humor and ships at sea by night.

The City is mad and beautiful... but with a gallant kind of madness and a grim kind of beauty.

The City is mad, but it is a gallant madness. All cities are beautiful: But the beauty is grim.

Conversation is grounded in but one rule. To be a good talker - learn to listen.

Dancing is good training for girls because it is the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not... and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

Journalism is a field aware of the fact that truth is not a solid but a fluid.

Listening is the most important thing one needs to learn in order to become a good talker.