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

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.

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

Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends.

Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.

I could have killed Gregory Fitzhurst at three hundred feet with my left hand.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.