If ever my life can be of any use to you, come and claim it.

If many remedies are prescribed for an illness you can be sure it has no cure

Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given.

For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.

Write, write, write-till your fingers break.

I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.

I can only regard with bewilderment an educated man who is also religious