Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.

Even Tom Sawyer had a girlfriend and to talk about adults without talking about their sex drives is like talking about a window without glass.

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

How easy it is, how dangerously easy it is to hate a man for one's own inadequacies.

I have seldom, if ever, seen money and gentleness go hand in hand.