Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.