Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 19, 1903 Death: August 9, 1978
Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous..
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset..
The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sens….
Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader--to look out for himself; and….
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset. Yes, there'll be more war ; and so….
Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment..
There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to….
Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I coul….
The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small..
When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't wan….
I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up..
I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking..
In the present, every day is a miracle..