Quotes by John O'Hara

“Much as I like owning a Rolls-Royce, I could do without it. What I could not do without is a typewriter, a supply of yellow second sheets and the time to put them to good use.”

“So whos perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.”

“We get together and encourage each other. We compare ideas and show off our stuff.”

“It gets you away from everything. Once you start doing a piece, you get into it and you become a part of it. Its a great release.”

“I wasnt ready to go out to pasture. I didnt have a worldwide travel agenda and I didnt want to work on the worlds greatest novel ... I wanted to stay busy, but not in the pressure cooker. This is a perfect transition.”

“It will have a far-reaching impact on protecting the health and lives of thousands of Prince Georges County residents.”

“Our IT environment is complex, with security and performance critical to our operations. Peak 10 has been a strong performing business partner since day one. Their dedicated professionals work side by side our own IT staff to keep our systems secure and available. Peak 10 is big part of our success to date and will continue to play an important role in our continued growth.”

“An artist is his own fault.”

“Little old ladies of both sexes. Why do I let them bother me?”

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

There comes a time in a mans life, if he is unlucky and leads a full life, when he has a secret so dirty that he knows he never will get rid of it. (Shakespeare knew this and tried to say it, but he said it just as badly as anyone ever said it. All the perfumes of Arabia makes you think of all the perfumes of Arabia and nothing more. It is the trouble with all metaphors where human behavior is concerned. People are not ships, chess men, flowers, race horses, oil paintings, bottles of champagne, excrement, musical instruments or anything else but people. Metaphors are all right to give you an idea.)

Bing: You’re a heel…a low down rotten heel…anything that doesn’t go your way, anything that you can’t have you destroy.

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.