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.

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

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of the depression.

I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.

The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.