Unemployed writers have muses. Employed writers just sweat.

Nobody's ever satisfied until they've been dead a good week.

Tell people the truth, they laugh. The truth is so tragic they have to pretend it's a joke.

I read it plain on his face, an implacable determination to get at the truth. C.B. Greenfield had mounted his mental charger, and he had a second horse waiting for me.

Beware the beguiled, they do their own beguiling.

Monstrous behavior is the order of the day. I'll tell you when to be shocked. When something human and decent happens!

My idea of success was to be a boy - possibly because my brothers, Leon and Arthur, were my father's pride and joy, whereas he had to be introduced to me several times before he got it firmly planted in his mind that I was part of the family.