The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.