There are so many ways of earning a living and most of them are failures.

When moneys in a purse in my own pocket / It means wealth.

it is a peaceful thing to be one succeeding.

The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.

The unreal is natural, so natural that it makes of unreality the most natural of anything natural. That is what America does, and that is what America is.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.