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.

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.

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

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

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

He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.

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