What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?

There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

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.

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.

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