There is probably no moment more appalling than that in which the tongue comes suddenly upon the ragged edge of a space from which the old familiar filling has disappeared.

If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.

Sheer madness is, of course, the highest possible brow in humor.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.