If, with the literate, I am/ Impelled to try an epigram,/ I never seek to take the credit;/ We all assume that Oscar said it.

[On Oscar Wilde:]

"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.

[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]

Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill.

The Athenians, front-fighters of the Greeks, at Marathon destroyed the power of the gold-bearing Medes.

It was poetic and playable, literate,

This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.