"You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but eat its head off in a drawer. You send that work out again and again, while you're working on another one. If you have talent, you will receive some measure of success - but only if you persist."
"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate."
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
"Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."