It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.

You've been telling us about how to secure peace, but come on, now, General-just among us Rotarians and Rotary Anns-'fess up! With your great experience, don't you honest, cross-your-heart, think that perhaps-just maybe-when a country has gone money-mad, like all our labor unions and workmen, with their propaganda to hoist income taxes, so that the thrifty and industrious have to pay for the shiftless ne'er-do-weels, then maybe, to save their lazy souls and get some iron into them, a war might be a good thing? Come on, now, tell your real middle name, Mong General!

People read fiction for emotion-not information

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile. In protest, I declined election to the National Institute of Arts and Letters some years ago, and now I must decline the Pulitzer Prize.

You have more people that love you than you know.