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

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

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.

Never hurry and never worry!

Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else