Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. It is said that leaders are readers. However if they read trashy magazines for the majority of their time and they never run with the information that they glean from resourceful books, then they may as well have not taken any time to read at all. It is easier to stay out than get out.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Experience comes from bad judgment.