A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

Work was like cats were supposed to be: if you disliked and feared it and tried to keep out if its way, it knew at once and sought you out and jumped on your lap and climbed all over you to show how much it loved you. Please God, he thought, don't let me die in harness.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.

Doing what you wanted to do was the only training, and the only preliminary, needed for doing more of what you wanted to do.

Education is one thing and instruction, however worthy, necessary and incidentally or monetarily educative, another.

When starting to think about any novel, part of the motive is: I'm going to show them, this time.