Whatever one believes to be true either is true or becomes true in one's mind.
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins.
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
It is easier to believe than to doubt.
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application.
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running.
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth.
They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.
Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert - and then make it brief.
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and he sat down.
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness.
If they haven't heard it before it's original.
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of morality be learned so clearly or so perfectly as from the New Testament?
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to.
A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool.
A book is never finished; it's abandoned.
News is history shot on the wing.
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.
Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves.
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day.
It is no disgrace to rest a bit.
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief.
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco