I am a journalist and have no earthly motives except curiosity and personal vanity.

Most Americans ... have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.

We are to regard existence as a raid or great adventure; it is to be judged, therefore, not by what calamities it encounters, but by what flag it follows and what high town it assaults. The most dangerous thing in the world is to be alive; one is always in danger of one's life. But anyone who shrinks from that is a traitor to the great scheme and experiment of being.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.