There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.