“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”

“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”

“If the work of the average man required half the mental agility and readiness of resource of the work of the average prostitute, the average man would be constantly on the verge of starvation.”

“The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth - that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.”

“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”

“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

“I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved, which a cow enjoys on giving milk.”