When I feel that I'm going to write a detective story, I buy a five pound box of chocolates and a ream of paper. When the candy is all gone and the paper all used up, I know that the book is long enough.

In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.

What is a magazine? A small body of Literature entirely surrounded by advertisements.

Every dogma must have its day.

We should live and learn; but by the time we've learned, it's too late to live.

A living gale is better than a dead calm.

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result.