Nearly all novels are too long.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

Many persons read and like fiction. It does not tax the intelligence and the intelligence of most of us can so ill afford taxation that we rightly welcome any reading matter which avoids this.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal... unless she's really attractive.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.