Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.

When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people-- people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.