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

Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?

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

Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.

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

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.

An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.