If you haven't had your life what have you had?

It exhibits the effort of an essentially prosaic mind to lift itself, by a prolonged muscular strain, into poetry.

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

If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.

She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.