No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him. A man when he gets into a higher sphere, into other habits of life, can…

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till grief be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I rail against writers who talk about the loneliness of it all - what do they want, a crowd looking over their typewriters? Or those who talk about having to s…

The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I ca…

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there…