The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this.

I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.

Sometimes you have to avoid mentioning things because people's feelings are tender.

I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.

A man can't eat anger for breakfast and sleep with it at night and not suffer damage to his soul.

If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?

Being rich and thin isn't everything.