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

If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

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

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!

If you look at eggs, you will see that each one is almost round but not quite ... Nature's way of distinguishing eggs from large golf balls.

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.