My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom.

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.