Ring Lardner

“They gave each other a smile with a future in it.”

“How can you write if you can't cry?”

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

“Walter Mayer was a hero at a Salvation Army home fire in Cincinnati.”