The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.

The bourgeois are other people.

The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.