You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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.

I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

Pray do not interrupt me," he wrote. "I am smiling.

Mercy did not exist in the primordial life. It was misunderstood for fear, and such misunderstandings made for death.

In a saturated population life is always cheap.

She was thrilling to a desire that urged her to go forward, to be in closer to that fire, to be squabbling with the dogs, and to be avoiding and dodging the stumbling feet of men.