“If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.”

“When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?”

“A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.”

“If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”

“personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for goodbehavior and be promoted to a revenue officerit is not much of a step up but i am humble”

“Our is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.”

“I never think at all when I writenobody can do two things at the same timeand do them both well”