A writer without a sense of justice or injustice would be better off editing the yearbook for a school for exceptional children.

He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, "Impossible," when orders came?

Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?

Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.