A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.