The kind of lawyer you hope the other fellow has.

The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow, I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.

A writer who is afraid to overreach himself is as useless as a general who is afraid to be wrong.

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.