No man should tell a lie unless he is shrewd enough to recognize the time for renouncing it, if and when it comes, and knows how to renounce it gracefully.

The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote

The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

Dignities are like faces; no two are the same.

As I understand it, a born executive is a guy who, when anything difficult or unexpected happens, yells for somebody to come and help him.

I love to make a mistake. It is my only assurance that I cannot reasonably be expected to assume the responsibility of omniscience.