I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building.

Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!

Work like hell! I had 122 rejection slips before I sold a story.

If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh.