My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.

Any man's life, told truly, is a novel.

The educated man is the man who can do something. The quality of his work marks the degree of his education.

The circus is the only fun you can buy that is good for you.

I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made.

The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers.

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.