The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

I don't remember any blue poodles.

I myself have known some profoundly thoughtful dogs.

(Cartoon caption:) I never really rallied after the birth of my first child.

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.

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

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