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

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?

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.

A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.

Change is a slow process. Keep going toward your goals. When you feel like giving up, remember how good it will feel to change your life into the wonderful life you have imagined.

Always doubting and questioning everything strikes me as a very miserable way to live.

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible.

Since there are so many idiots out there, you may actually start to think you're crazy. You are not. They are idiots.

I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

Hash browns are my favorite breakfast food.

I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented.

That’s my idea of what a portrait ought to be, anonymous and documentary and a straightforward picture of mankind.

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.