Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.

It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere.

Obscurity and a competence—that is the life that is best worth living.