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 was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

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