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

The difference between our decadence and the Russians is that while theirs is brutal, ours is apathetic.

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

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.

A peril of the night road is that flecks of dust and streaks of bug blood on the windshield look to me like old admirals in uniform, or crippled apple women, or the front edge of barges, and I whirl out of their way, thus going into ditches and fields and up on front lawns, endangering the life of authentic admirals and apple women who may be out on the roads for a breath of air before retiring.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.