No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.