Religion is the opium of the poor.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy.

Man is not made for defeat.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, "What will you have, sir?" And I said, "A glass of hemlock."

All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.