The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage.

I remembered my days and nights of sunshine and starshine, where life was all a wild sweet wonder, a spiritual paradise of unselfish adventure and ethical romance. And I saw before me, ever blazing and burning, the Holy Grail.

The Stone the Builders Rejected.

Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

A man with a club [bat] is a law-maker, a man to be obeyed, but not necessarily conciliated.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don't get it you will nonetheless get something that looks remarkably like it.