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.

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.

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.

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

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

What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?