Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself.