Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to check the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.

New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.

I would give all I possess to get out of myself; but somehow, at the end, I find myself so vastly more interesting than nine tenths of the people I meet.

I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.

Take the word for it of a man who has made his way inch by inch, and does not believe that we'll wake up to find our work done because we've lain all night a-dreaming of it; anything worth doing is devilish hard to do!