I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.

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

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.