The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.