The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.

Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so.

Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them.

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

Worry destroys the ability to write.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.