Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

For a poet$$$ he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman$$$ he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

I am always in love.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Isn't it pretty to think so.

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal$$$ and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.