I am like a blind pig when I work.

My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.

We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

Any man who eats dessert is not drinking enough.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.