“A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.”

“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.”

“As the storm came nearer I began to realize that I hadn't made the most of my three years' immunity. In fact, I hadn't done a single thing about cleaning up my life. I was, if anything, an even more logical target for lightning than the last time I was in range. And thunderstorms don't creep up on you at seven o'clock in the morning in a non-thunderstorm country for nothing, you know. I lined up a rather panicky schedule of reforms...But as the storm suddenly petered out and went off in the other direction nothing much has come out of it yet. I may have three years more, and these things can't be rushed.”

“It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.”

“New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say "These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.”

“Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. ”

“There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.”