For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

To think is to be sick.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

I've seen death and I didn't like it.

I can draw and write, and you'd be foolish not to hire me.

We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.