The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.

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.

Courage is grace under pressure.

The commission members themselves were never briefed on Able Danger.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

They'll try to close the door on you... Just open it.

Some teachers are very accessible. They advertise a great deal, they go out into the public. If they're advanced teachers, doubtlessly they are very inaccessible in terms of physical proximity.

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

One is tempted to say that the most human plants, after all, are the weeds.

When you lose the capacity to dream, you lose the capacity to love, and the energy to love is lost.

The promises of God for tomorrow are the anchor for believers today.

A partner can encourage you, maybe even stop you from falling, but they can't get you to the top. That's entirely up to you.