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

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

A story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.