“One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.”

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”

“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.”

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.”

“I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.”

“Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.”

“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.”