I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.

It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea.

What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.