The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

Enthusiasm is caught, not taught.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky.

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.