a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart.