An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

I suppose the human race is doing the best it can but hells bells thats only an explanation its not an excuse.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.

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

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

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.

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