"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."

"The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have."

"An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve."

"They gave each other a smile with a future in it."

"I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant."

"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do."