I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

Since the Americans have ceased to have dyspepsia, they have lost the only thing that gave them any expression.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-crossing.