The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.

Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco

Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind

Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.

News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.

Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.

A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.