Sinclair Lewis

“Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.”

“People will buy anything that is one to a customer.”

“Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.”

“Our American professors like their literature clear and pure and simple and very dead.”

“We'd get sick on too many cookies, but ever so much sicker on no cookies at all.”

“Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.”

“Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.”

“When you've got it, flaunt it.”

“Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form.”

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

“The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, 'The trouble with this country is....'”

“He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little.”

“There are two insults which no human being will endure: The first, that he has no sense of humor, and the second, that he has never known trouble.”

“It isn't what you earn but how you spend it that fixes your class.”

“What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.”