I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.