It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months.

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

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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 admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

As in the sexual experience, there are never more than two persons present in the act of reading-the writer, who is the impregnator, and the reader, who is the resspondent. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.