"One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation."
"I just sit at my typewriter and curse a bit."
"There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature."
"There is only one cure for grey hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine."
"I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed, I suppose."
"He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom."