Write drunk; edit sober.

You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.

Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?

Most people never listen.

Fish," he said softly, aloud, "I'll stay with you until I am dead.

I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.

I wonder what your idea of heaven would be — A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows.