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

I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.

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.

What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.

News is history shot on the wing.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.