Occupation: Journalist Birth: March 8, 1890 Death: July 2, 1960
If they haven't heard it before it's original..
Perhaps no mightier conflict of mind occurs ever again in a lifetime than that first decision to unseat one's own tooth..
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind.
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running..
News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day..
Love and memory last and will so endure till the game is called because of darkness..
It is no disgrace to rest a bit..
Psychoanalysts seem to be long on information and short on application..
What is success? It is a toy balloon among children armed with pins..
I will be brief. Not nearly so brief as Salvador Dali, who gave the world's shortest speech. He said I will be so brief I have already finished, and ….
A man who makes a one-dollar profit on his expense account is dishonest. A man who loses five cents on one is a damned fool..
Never thank anybody for anything, except a drink of water in the desert -and then make it brief..
News is history shot on the wing..
A book is never finished; it's abandoned..
Every man should be allowed to love two cities, his own and San Francisco.
He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled..
Why may not the Bible and especially the New Testament be read and taught as a divine revelation in school? Where else can the purest principles of m….
Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead..
Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts..
An editor should have a pimp for a brother so he'd have someone to look up to..
Men are not against you, they are merely for themselves..