"My Life and Hard Times" Quotes

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers.

One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.

I loathe the expression 'What makes him tick.' It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression.

The plot of the average novel is as dead as the history of yesterday's newspaper.

Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, too late—when he was not really needed.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.