“The effect of his scientific budget planning was that he felt at once triumphantly wealthy and perilously poor.”— Sinclair Lewis, amazon.comTagged: Life, Money
“One evening when his wife was away and he had no one to impress...”— Sinclair Lewis, amazon.comTagged: Life
“For many minutes...he lay awake, shivering, reduced to a primitive terror, comprehending that he had won freedom, and wondering what he could do with anything so unknown and so embarrassing as freedom.”— Sinclair Lewis, amazon.comTagged: Life
“I've never done a single thing I've wanted to in my whole life! I don't know's I've accomplished anything except just get along. I figure out I've made about a quarter of an inch out of a possible hundred rods. Well, maybe you'll carry things on further. I don't know. But I do get a kind of sneaking…”— Sinclair Lewis, Babbit, amazon.comTagged: Life
“The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods.”— Sinclair Lewis, amazon.comTagged: first lines of books