A pinch of probability is worth a pound of perhaps.

I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

He had as much fun in the water as any person I have known. You didn't have to throw a stick in the water to get him to go in. Of course, he would bring back a stick to you if you did throw one in. He would even have brought back a piano if you had thrown one in.

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

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