Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.

The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get mad at him. It makes you mean and petty. But twenty-five cent books are different.

Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.