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.

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

Traveling with children corresponds roughly to traveling third class in Bulgaria.

There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It ought to be made much more difficult to do than that.

I am both a public and a private school boy myself, having always changed schools just as the class in English in the new school was taking up Silas Marner, with the result that it was the only book in the English language that I knew until I was eighteen--but, boy, did I know Silas Marner!

Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous.

The Great Arizona Desert is full of the bleaching bones of people who waited for me to start something.