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

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

There is no accounting for human beings.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.