One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front pocket can be picked by a trotting horse looking for sugar, and your hind pocket by a thief looking for his fortune.

Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness.

Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly, and does not thrash about.