It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn’t give it up because by that time I was too famous.

In America there are two classes of travel—first class, and with children.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

I don’t know enough words to have a style; I know, at the most, fifteen adjectives.

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author’s soul. If that upheaval is not present, then it must come from the works of any other author which happen to be handy and easily adapted.