Three hours of writing require twenty hours of preparation. Luckily I have learned to dream about the work, which saves me some working time.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

I guess this is why I hate governments, all governments. It is always the rule, the fine print, carried out by fine-print men. There's nothing to fight, no wall to hammer with frustrated fists.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

It is not good to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck away. You must want it just enough, and you must be very tactful with Gods or the gods.

You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway.

Thou mayest rule over sin.