A good joke will sell quicker than a good poem, and, measured in sweat and blood, will bring better remuneration.

The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings.

Age is never so old as youth would measure it.

You stand on dead men's legs. You've never had any of your own. You couldn't walk alone between two sunrises and hustle the meat for your belly

It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and toils were in themselves self-remunerative. They were expressions of life, and life is always happy when it is expressing itself.