Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest on perilously soft bottom.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.

Write about it by day and dream about it by night.

I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen to a young man it would almost certainly happen late at night.

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up!