I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

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

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.