There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

He is now rising from affluence to poverty.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.