Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

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.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.