May I wish for you the knowledge...that marriages do not take place, they are made by hand; that there is always an element of discipline involved; that however perfect the honeymoon, the time will come, however brief it is, when you wish she would fall downstairs and break a leg. This goes for her too. But the mood will pass, if you give it time.

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.

I hung up. It was a good start, but it didn’t go far enough. I ought to have locked the door and hidden under the desk.

They write them long because they can't write them short.

All language begins with speech, and the speech of common men at that, but when it develops to the point of becoming a literary medium it only looks like speech.

The moment a man begins to talk about technique that's proof that he is fresh out of ideas.