You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do.

On lady novelists: As artists they're rot, but as providers they're oil wells; they gush. Norris said she never wrote a story unless it was fun to do. I understand Ferber whistles at her typewriter.

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

Ah, clear they see and true they say That one shall weep, and one shall stray

ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.

They tire of quiet, that have known the storm

All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.