The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.

It is a miracle that New York works at all. The whole thing is implausible.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.

I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to another and the first thing you know he has a stuffed chair and is fast asleep in it.

I believe... that security declines as security machinery expands.