Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

Never mistake motive for action.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.