To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably.

All things lie dark in possibility.

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.