A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.

Women's weapon, water-drops.