It is no disgrace to rest a bit.

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

He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

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.

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

Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.

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.