I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

If you can't be funny, be interesting.

Don't think I'm not incoheret.

Editing is the same as quarreling with writers — same thing exactly.

Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.

In the old days in San Francisco there was a famous drink called Pisco Punch, made from Pisco, a Peruvian brandy pisco punch used to taste like lemonade but had a kick like vodka, or worse.

wounds make you awake in the memories but tears makes tough and dry in real life.

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has one in his pocket.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

I don't want to be an action star, an action star's life is so short. I want my life to get longer, I want my career to get longer.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Jeffrey Lewis sings as though absurdity were truth, and truth absurdity. And I think I agree with him.

It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence.