The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

I can write better than anyone who can write faster.

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

Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear.

Our hypothetical rich client might even have ordered a Pommard, because it was listed at a higher price...He would have never learned [about other wines]. A man who is rich in his adolescence is almost doomed to be a dilettante at table. This is not because all millionaires are stupid but because they are not impelled to experiment.

Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.