A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on.

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?

The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it.

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment.

In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.

Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other.

There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

Has anyone succeeded in being his own desire?

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds

There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.

The land-relation is still strictly economic, entailing privileges but not obligations

We earn what we get - most of us - and, sweet heaven help us! we get it. God does not always pay on Saturday - but He Pays.

You need to treat your finances as a resource God has provided to fulfill your vision, not a tool to fill your life with luxuries

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

Negativity is basically laziness.

I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.