I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready at the slightest provocation to revert to normal action.

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.

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

The requisitions of the income tax have added greatly to the attractions of mercenary crime.

A character who is thought-out is not born, he or she is contrived. A born character is round, a thought-out character is flat.