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

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

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.

A book is never finished; it's abandoned.

If they haven't heard it before it's original.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

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