America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

You'll be surprised how infinitely merciful they [these tablets] are. The prescription number is 96814. I think of it as the telephone number of God!

To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

I know all about the tyranny of women.