There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

What do I want in a doctor? Perhaps more than anything else-a friend with special knowledge.

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

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.

An answer is invariably the parent of a whole family of new questions.

Every man in a bank hates what the bank does and yet the bank does it.