“The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. ”

“Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.”

“When I want to read a novel, I write one.”

“An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.”

“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours”

“It has been my lot to have found myself in many distant lands. I have never been in one without finding a Scotchman, and I never found a Scotchman who was not head of the poll.”

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”