Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

I found that my name signed to a check was even more welcome than when signed to a letter.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

Men were not equal in the effort they made, nor did equal efforts bring equal result. ... Equality of opportunity, yes. Equality of effort and result, no.

I suppose that we are only young, Chris, so long as we can forget. After that we merely remember!

The greatest weapon in the world ... is ridicule.