For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs.

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.