When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

The heart is the real fountain of youth.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

Wagner has some great moments, but a lot of miserable half hours.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.