I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?

I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead.

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.

You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

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

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