What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.

There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.

Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.

Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.