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.

A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.

A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

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

Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey