Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech.

I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession.

A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory

A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for a story has as many versions as it has readers.

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.

Once Charley fell in love with a dachshund, a romance racially unsuitable, physically ridiculous, and mechanically impossible. But all these problems Charley ignored. He loved deeply and tried dogfully.

A good writer always works at the impossible.