A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

By the time a bartender knows what drink a man will have before he orders, there is little else about him worth knowing.

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

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

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.

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