There is no friend as loyal as a book.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves.

The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day ... you will never be stuck. Always stop while you are going good and don't think about it or worry about it until you start to write the next day. That way your subconscious will work on it all the time. But if you think about it consciously or worry about it you will kill it and your brain will be tired before you start.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.