No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader's intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

The best writing is rewriting.

A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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