Just as the painter thinks with his brush and paints the novelist thinks with his story.
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
First, cut out all the wisdom, then cut out all the adjectives.
I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.