Every Compulsion Is Put Upon

In Other Countries, Art And Literature Are Left To A Lot Of Shabby Bums Living In Attics And Feeding On Booze And Spaghetti, But In America The Successful Writer Or Picture-painter Is Indistinguishable From Any Other Decent Businessman.

There Are So Many People In The World Who Are Eager To Do For You Things That You Do Not Wish Done, Provided Only That You Will Do For Them Things That You Don't Wish To Do.

Pugnacity Is A Form Of Courage, But A Very Bad Form.

Winter Is Not A Season In The North Middlewest; It Is An Industry.

The Greatest Mystery About A Human Being Is Not His Reaction To Sex Or Praise, But The Manner In Which He Contrives To Put In Twenty-four Hours A Day. It Is This Which Puzzles The Longshoreman About The Clerk, The Londoner About The Bushman.