A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

a self-made martyr is a poor thing.

The suitable is the last thing we ever want.

I would write of the universal, not the provincial, in human nature.... I would write of characters, not of characteristics.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.