If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.
The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.
When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.
Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.