Shut up,' he explained.

He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

How can you write if you can't cry?

How do you look when I'm sober?

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

I believe in solving social ills with business skills.

The mathematician knows some things, no doubt, but not those things one usually wants to get from him.

If I have any justification for having lived it's simply, I'm nothing but faults, failures and so on, but I have tried to make a good pair of shoes. There's some value in that.

My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall.

I don't really do very well when I'm sent somewhere. A lot of magazines want to send you somewhere to do something. They want you to stow away on a ship, or something like that.

You have nice manners for a thief and a liar," said the dragon.

Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else.

It's exciting to work with the kids so devoid of irony, so unguarded. And also terrifying

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver.