To me, all the juice of a book is in an unpublished manuscript, and the published book is like a dead tree - just good for cutting up and building your house with.
Strange is the influence of Marx on character.
I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.
Loneliness is a terrible blindness.
Gentlemen are overestimated, that is my experience.
Anyone would think a thin stick like me, weak and miserable, would go down with everything: do you think I get more than my old cough every winter? I bet I live till ninety, with all my aches and pains. To think that's fifty more years of the Great-I-Am.