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.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!