Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.

You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.

Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to find out how he feels.

Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

Fidelity is for phonographs