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

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.

Looks can be deceiving; it's eating that's believing.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

I have lived in the East for nearly thirty years now, but many of my books prove that I am never very far away from Ohio in my thoughts, and that the clocks that strike in my dreams are often the clocks of Columbus.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.