All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and one sex from the other

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.