Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.

The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.

Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.

As I was saying to the landlord only this morning: 'You can't have everything'.

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

I like to think of my shining tombstone. It gives me, as you might say, something to live for.