The wise man thinks once before he speaks twice.

Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirling around on it.

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get out a new book by him each year.

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

It has always seemed to me that the most difficult part of building a bridge would be the start.

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

I can remember the day when all that a professor was supposed to do was to mark "C minus" on students' examination papers, then gohome to tea. Nowadays they seem to feel that they must know just how much we (outside the university) eat, what we do with our spare time, and how we like our eggs.