I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.

There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.