Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

The trouble with the public is that there is too much of it; what we need in public is less quantity and more quality.

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.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

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

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.