One of your first jobs, as you write for money, will be to get rid of your vocabulary.

Money talks. And writes. And publishes. And reviews. But it can’t read.

Boy meets girl; girl gets boy into pickle; boy gets pickle into girl.

Few human beings are proof against the implied flattery of rapt attention.

Characterization is an accident that flows out of action and dialogue.

At last a lifetime ambition of mine to become a pimp was satisfied.

Louella remarked that when foreign nations had intercourse with this country they knew they had been intercoursed.