For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.