The saxophone is the embodied spirit of beer.

The man who begins to go to bed forty minutes before he opens his bedroom door is bored; that is to say, he is not living.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.