I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.

Some people you shouldn't kid, even if they deserve it.

My god, there's absolutely nothing tenth-rate about you, and yet you're up to your neck at this minute in tenth-rate thinking.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

Sentimentality is loving something more than God does.

He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.