People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

When you consider that there are a thousand ways to express even the simplest idea, it is no wonder writers are under a great strain. Writers care greatly how a thing is said - it makes all the difference. So they are constantly faced with too many choices and must make too many decisions.

In every queen there's a touch of floozy.

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

In the nature of things, a person engaged in the flimsy business of expressing himself on paper is dependent on the large general privilege of being heard. Any intimation that this privilege may be revoked throws a writer into panic.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

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.