Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; read more

Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you read more

Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

By words the mind is winged.

By words the mind is winged.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.

There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.