"Practically everybody in New York has half..." - Quote by Groucho Marx

“I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book. . . . I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.”

“It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.”

“I hate London when it's not raining.”

“It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was.”

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.”

“Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.”

“On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.”

“Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.”

“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.”