If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.

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

My advice to you, if you should ever be in a hold up, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

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

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

He studied cities as women study their reflections.

Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.