Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating. Why? Because it wasn't meant.

You have to hold your audience in writing to the very end-much more than in talking, when people have to be polite and listen to you.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

People who try to boss themselves always want (however kindly) to boss other people. They always think they know best and are so stern and resolute about it they are not very open to new and better ideas.

I will tell you what I have learned myself. For me, a long five or six mile walk helps. And one must go alone and every day.

If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented, having the most imagination and sympathy, these are the first ones to get killed off.