America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

One battle doesn't make a campagin, but critics treat one book, good or bad, like a whole war.

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

Remember to get the weather in your damn book-weather is very important.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?