The best writing is rewriting.

I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.

If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme a double Scotch.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.