Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.