Quotes from Ring Lardner

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

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.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

How can you write if you can't cry?

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

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

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