When everyone writes, no one reads.
It is glorious to discover a commonplace for oneself.
Only in the movies does it pour when it rains.
Few men improve upon closer acquaintance, and none indefinitely.
Every business is disposable. Every businessman understands this and almost no one else does.
If you aren’t indispensable, you’re probably useless.
Critics prefer drama to comedy because drama can be chewed over endlessly, and who wants to talk about why something’s funny?
You can’t write for your betters, and you shouldn’t write for your inferiors. You might as well write what you want to read.
As you grow old, you forget, and as you forget, you have to stop lying, or at least cut way down.
Rogues, dunces, and newspapermen have long been with us, but the rogues are no longer charming, the dunces no longer amiable, and the newspapermen no longer raffish.