This is the posture of fortunes slave: one foot in the gravy, one foot in the grave.

Two is company, four is a party, three is a crowd. One is a wanderer.

American girls often marry someone they can't stand to spite someone they can.

Man is troubled by what might be called the Dog Wish, a strange and involved compulsion to be as happy and carefree as a dog

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

Until a man can quit talking loudly to himself in order to shout down the memories of blunderings and gropings, he is in no shape for the painstaking examination of distress.

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