We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee.

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

Summer is a discouraging time to work - you don't feel death coming on the way it does in the fall when the boys really put pen to paper.

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.