Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.

Some American writers who have known each other for years have never met in the daytime or when both were sober.

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to mutter to himself, and calls out in his sleep.

The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

Writers of comedy have outlook, whereas writers of tragedy have, according to them, insight.

The pounding of the cylinders increased: ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.