| It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. |
| You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. |
| Writing is hard work and bad for the health. |
| Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you. |
| Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. |
| Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. |
| I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. |
| I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me. |
| The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. |
| Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. |
| Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. |
