When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.