I seldom offered drinks or lunches to the people I interviewed. It gave my research a certain spartan, puritan quality
We savored the irony of an elegant, immaculate magazine being put together in an inelegant, un-dressed-up shop.… There was no reception room on any floor
The editing process was arduous and time-consuming, since there was hardly a paragraph that was not touched
unable to be outrageous himself, he relished outrageousness in others
Mr. Shawn had ceaseless battles with her, because many of her views were antipathetic to him
When he [Shawn] was accepting a piece, he was very quick. He never felt the need to prove that he had read the piece and mastered the material