I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

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