The act of writing is either something the writer dreads or actually likes, and I actually like it. Even re-writing's fun. You're getting somewhere, whether it seems to move or not.

In the pathways between office and home and home and the houses of settled people there are always, ready to snap at you, the little perils of routine living, but there is no escape in the unplanned tangent, the sudden turn.

I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?

Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35.

Though statisticians in our time have never kept the score, Man wants a great deal here below and Woman even more.

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'

Americans want to go to heaven without dying.